NEW YORK: The third entry for the seniors housing Global Award for 2015 has been received.
Nonprofit RurAL CAP is planning to expand its Safe Harbor project for low-income seniors housing.
The multifamily housing unit will produce more energy than it consumes and use on-site water and sewer reclamation systems.
RurAL CAP runs a housing program called Safe Harbor, providing housing to residents with very low incomes. The new ultra energy-efficient units are set to be built next door to an existing 50-unit. Managers there say that without the housing they provide to people who are at least 50 percent below the median income level, most of the families would be homeless.
The Safe Harbor housing development will might become the first ever energy net-positive, water net-zero building servicing the seniors market…
