By Daniel Barbarisi of projo.com
PROVIDENCE - With the day-to-day rise of the costs of living, affordable housing is no longer just an issue of securing a low purchase price. The costs of maintaining, heating and cooling a home can be enough to strain families’ finances.
To combat those rising costs, the city is turning to the green movement: the wing of modern architectural design that emphasizes environmentally friendly and sustainable practices in building materials and methods. Green homes use less energy and thus are cheaper to run, advocates say.
But Providence lacks truly green homes and few developers are lining up to build them.
So the city is trying to encourage them to build green homes by sponsoring a sustainable housing design competition to create a “pattern book” of cookie cutter home designs that developers can build, with possible incentives from the city if they do.
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