‘Green’ houses too costly?

Posted by Susy Thielen on October 14th, 2007 — in Housing News, Smart Growth

By J. FERGUSON
Arizona Daily Sun
Sunday, October 14, 2007

Vice-Mayor Scott Overton may seem like an unlikely advocate for affordable housing.

Since he joined the council last year, the local contractor has repeatedly raised concerns about the creation of a city-run housing land trust, supporting market-driven solutions to the affordable housing crisis.

But Overton says a recent proposal to adopt a set of mandatory energy-efficient building codes will push home prices further out of the grasp of the average homebuyer. Read the rest of this page »

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