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New green building resources for HUD grantees

The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has announced a new initiative to offer green building training to their grantees and other affordable housing organizations.

By 3lane, October 23, 2012

The free courses include Introduction to Green Building for Affordable Housing, Executive Decision Making, Best Practices for Green Building Operations and Maintenance, Financing Green Building, and Energy Performance Contracting for Small PHAs.

HUD’s Affordable Green Initiative is a new, pilot initiative to provide sustainability and green building tools and resources to HUD grantees and affordable housing organizations. Participants may receive training, organizational accreditation, and/or technical assistance at no cost.

Registration is now open for courses in Cleveland, OH (Oct. 29-Nov. 2); Detroit, MI (Nov. 5-Nov. 9); Pittsburgh, PA (Dec. 3-Dec. 7); San Francisco, CA (Dec. 4-Dec. 7);

Click here to read the full course descriptions and find additional dates.

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