Living Product Expo 2017

TRACK: EQUITY + TRANSPARENCY

Our future is sustainable only if all people have opportunities to live in healthy and affordable homes. This session will start with an exploration of some of the environmental, health, and equity issues critical to affordable housing and discuss ways to positively address these issues through the framework of the Living Building Challenge. Real world examples of affordable housing projects that are leading the way to a Living Future will be presented along with some of the strategies they are using to rapidly diminish the gap between current limits and the end-game positive solutions we seek. The focus will be on exploring key barriers to achieving the Materials Petal. The majority of this session is designed to be interactive with participants working in small groups to solve the most critical barriers to Materials Petal success and tip the scales for Living Affordable Housing. Ideas related to innovations in windows, sourcing FSC Wood, the link between handprinting and affordable housing, and a red list free buyer's club may all be explored.