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Examples of housing programs that meet sustainability criteria include: <br /> Energy Efficiency <br /> • Austin, TX Austin Energy Star and Green Builder Programs <br /> A program with an incentive system for building and marketing environmentally <br /> sound residential housing. <br /> Environmental Safety • <br /> ' . • US HUD Department Office of Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control <br /> The Healthy Homes Initiative seeks to protect children and their families from <br /> environmental health and safety hazards in the home. <br /> Green Building <br /> • General technical information: <br /> http://www.usgbc.org/ <br /> • <br /> http://www.eren.doe.gov/building <br /> • Portland, OR G/Rated Green Building Program <br /> A municipal program created to promote resource and energy- efficient building, <br /> site design and construction.practices. Includes information on green affordable <br /> housing. <br /> • Oakland, CA Green Building Policy and Guidelines <br /> The city of Oakland's Green Building Guidelines encourage affordable in -fill <br /> housing, mixed -use development, and the use of environmentally - responsible <br /> materials.. <br /> • Seattle, WA LEED Incentive Program <br /> Seattle City Light and Seattle Public Utilities have combined funding to create the <br /> LEED Incentive Program, offering financial assistance to projects incorporating <br /> • sustainable building goals early in building programming and design decisions <br /> and committed to certifying their project using the LEED Rating System. <br /> • <br /> • <br /> Mixed Use <br /> • Miami -Dade County, FL Sustainable Miami in Public Housing <br /> A collection of federal and local agencies support a public housing project of 515 <br /> units to own and . rent -to -own. <br /> Water Conservation <br /> • <br /> • <br /> • <br />