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Green building and energy efficiency retrofits of affordable housing not only help struggling families find decent places to live, but also help create more jobs for the economy than traditional building methods.

” Greening Buildings and Communities: The Costs and Benefits, Greg Kats, President of Capital – E, a national clean energy advisory and venture capital firm, writes that “green building increases employment by shifting resources from energy spending toward design and construction, efficiency, renewable energy and recycling.” Kats also states that eight to 12 additional jobs are directly or indirectly generated from green construction; recycling construction was can create more jobs per ton than landfill disposal or incineration of the material. “

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