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By Nancy Eve Cohen, Building Green
“When people hear the term ‘net zero’ they just see dollar signs.”
That’s the assessment of Julie Klump, vice president of design and building performance for the nonprofit developer Preservation of Affordable Housing. Klump wanted to show that net-zero-energy buildings can be built affordably because “that’s how we should be building buildings … and low-income residents deserve a shot at a building with low utility bills.”
In 2015, Klump led a team that designed and built a nine-building, 27-unit, affordable housing project on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, for households living at or below 60% of AMI. A quarter of the apartments were for people on the brink of homelessness. The goal was to build housing that is both affordable and net-zero.
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