Susan Puri and Kathleen Smith

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As ILFI's Affordable Housing Manager, Susan Puri helps affordable housing projects achieve Living Building Certification through the Institute’s pilot program. She also helps develop resources and educational materials. As Director of Technical Support Services, Kathleen Smith oversees all aspects of ILFI's programs, including their continued evolution as the most innovative green building standards in the world. In addition, she leads the Institute’s strategic and technical consulting services with projects, institutions, and governments working to adopt advanced measures of sustainability related to the Living Building Challenge.
Affordable Housing Declare Healthy Materials

Leveraging Materials Resources for Healthier Housing: Declare, Homefree, and Housing Partnership Select

Organizations like the Healthy Building Network (HBN), Housing Partnership Network (HPN), and the International Living Future Institute (ILFI) share a vision for safer and healthier housing and have each developed a set of resources that can be used to educate and to facilitate the selection of safer products. Though there are some differences in terminology and approach among these organizations…

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Affordable Housing Blog Zero Energy

Strategies for Zero Energy Affordable Housing

Triple Bottom Line Benefits for Residents Zero Energy homes are not only environmentally sustainable, they also cost less to operate, and are healthier to live in. Low-income families have a far higher cost burden for utilities, spending, on average, 17% of their income on utility bills, compared to 2-3% for other households.[1] Affordable housing units tend to be older and…

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Issue 38 | Transparency Over Trade Secrets Trim Tab

The New Living Building Challenge Framework for Affordable Housing

Cover image: Pacific Point Affordable Family Housing. Image: Bruce Damonte The International Living Future Institute (ILFI) is proud to announce the launch of its new Living Building Challenge Framework for Affordable Housing. This second edition has been fully revised and expanded to include updated findings, inspiring and detailed case studies, and new strategies and approaches to financing, designing, building, and…

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Affordable Housing Equity Issue 36 | Community + Equity

Living Homes for All

Editor’s Note: The Affordable Housing Pilot Program at the International Living Future Institute, made possible with initial funding by the Kresge Foundation and current and ongoing funding by the JPB Foundation, includes the development of industry-specific resources, such as The Living Building Challenge Framework for Affordable Housing, as well as working with pilot projects that are registered under the Living…

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