Affordable housing goes green too at Casa Dominguez
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It may look like your usual apartment building from the outside, but Casa Dominguez in East Rancho Dominguez aims to be different: eco-friendly and affordable. Residents have dual-flush toilets, low-flow shower heads, solar-powered common areas and low-water landscaping irrigated with laundry gray water. From Times staff writer Jessica Garrison’s story:
Like the Prius and the $5 locally grown heirloom tomato, green building has been a status symbol among the wealthy. Affordable housing, on the other hand, typically has been made as economically as possible — the better to provide homes for as many people as possible. Green touches have long been a luxury.Casa Dominguez is one of a number of new developments signaling a change. The $31-million project, built by the Los Angeles-based affordable housing developer Abode Communities, is aiming to be the first multifamily affordable housing project in Los Angeles County to win the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design platinum certification, the U.S. Green Building Council’s highest LEED rating.
Read her full story about this development and others like it here.
-- Deborah Netburn
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