May 21, 2010 As many of you know, HUD launched our new Office of Sustainable Housing and Communities in February -- allowing us to work directly with communities to support innovative planning and practice at the local level and helping to coordinate our investments with the Departments of Transportation, Energy, and EPA, and other agencies at the federal level. Indeed, the first thing way we're embracing sustainability at HUD is by making the most significant federal investment in planning in a generation. ...
That's why, for the first time in the history of federal grant competitions, I want to announce today that HUD will be using location-efficiency to score our grant applications. Using the "LEED-ND" green neighborhood rating system CNU developed in partnership with the National Resources Defense Council and Green Building Council, it's time that federal dollars stopped encouraging sprawl and started lowering the barriers to the kind of sustainable development our country needs and our communities want. >> Read More Source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Prepared Remarks for Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Shaun Donovan at the Congress for the New Urbanism
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Residents in neighborhoods in inner areas have 36-60% lower travel-related greenhouse gas emissions than those in outer areas. (IBI Group, 2002)
