Equity and the Living Building Challenge
Feb 29, 2016 9:00 AM ET
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Equity and the Living Building Challenge
By Brita Carlson and Tara Barauskas
An essential part of building living communities isn’t just designing housing units with a low environmental impact, but making those housing units affordable for the communities they’re in. In Los Angeles, A Community of Friends (ACOF) works to place the city’s homeless population in houses--not just any four-walled dwelling, but buildings that cater to personal and social health. The Living Building Challenge, with its mandates surrounding nontoxic building materials, was a perfect fit.
