Housing Affordability and Green Building Technologies
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Engineering and Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2022) | Viewed by 654
Special Issue Editors
Interests: green affordable housing, including codes and standards, policies and programs, technological innovations, and design and decision-making tools developed to mitigate undesirable economic, environmental, and social impacts of the housing sector.
Interests: green affordable housing, including codes and standards, policies and programs, technological innovations, and design and decision-making tools developed to mitigate undesirable economic, environmental, and social impacts of the housing sector
Special Issue Information
Dear colleagues,
There is currently a critical need to develop green affordable housing to reduce growing concerns around the national economy, declining world reserves, and climate change. The integration of green building technologies and practices with affordable housing could help communities το achieve multiple objectives, including energy efficiency and water conservation, indoor environmental quality, safe, healthy, affordable, and productive built environments, and sustainable environmental stewardship. Low-income households in affordable housing properties are particularly and disproportionately vulnerable to economic, environmental, and social impacts, and comprehensive reform in housing policy and practice is needed.
We welcome qualitative and quantitative research contributing to new knowledge aimed at advancing economic, environmental, and social aspects of green affordable housing in a wide range of spatial scales, ranging from cities, communities, buildings, to building systems assemblies and design.
Prof. Dr. Andrew McCoy
Dr. Armin Yeganeh
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Affordable housing
- Building codes and standards
- Building systems
- Building technology
- Climate change
- Cost–benefit analysis
- Decision-making
- Energy efficiency
- Green building
- Housing policy
- Indoor environmental quality
- Life-cycle analysis
- Renewable energy
- Resource efficiency
- Sustainable building
