Think you can’t afford an eco-home? Some of Canada’s greenest apartments go for as little as $85 per month — thanks to social housing providers who have embraced energy efficiency standards and green building techniques.
Those builders say it’s a way to use public money to solve multiple problems at once — including mitigating and adapting to climate change and tackling growing housing unaffordability and homelessness. And it’s already helping green building techniques spread to other types of construction and housing.
What kind of green affordable housing is being built?
From Whistler, B.C., to Windsor, Ont., to Halifax, N.S., there’s been a building boom in
