Affordable Housing

The Affordable Housing program is Green Doors' newest program and will be focused on providing safe, quality housing for working poor families and individuals. The first housing project under this program is an acquisition/rehabilitation project in the Pecan Springs neighborhood of Central Northeast Austin. When completed, Green Doors anticipates that the project will include rehabilitated 70 homes - one and two-bedroom apartments.

Green Doors decided to move forward with this specific project for several reasons. First, it will preserve existing affordable housing in a neighborhood that urgently needs quality, well-managed and well-maintained affordable housing. Second, it will complement the Austin Police Department's broader effort to clean up a part of the Pecan Springs neighborhood that has considerable urban blight (abandoned buildings, high drug activity, prostitution and other illegal activities). And third, it will allow Green Doors to bring to bear its green building practices to a neighborhood block desperately in need of quality, green and affordable housing to make this area a more attractive, sustainable and desirable place to live.

Green Doors currently projects the first phase of newly rehabilitated homes will be available to residents in the fall of 2009.

If you are interested in learning more about the program please feel free to contact us.