Green affordable housing plays a key role in reducing costs, creating jobs and cleaning our air.

What incentives exist for the construction of "green" housing projects?

Are these incentives effective? If not, how could they be improved?

And are other incentives available to encourage the development of environmentally conscious housing?

These questions and more will be addressed at a hearing of the Assembly's Committees on Environmental Conservation, Energy and Housing. 

The hearing will take place on Thursday, February 11 at noon in the Assembly Hearing Room, Room 1923, 250 Broadway, New York City.

The Assembly is holding the hearing to discuss the viability of developing affordable green housing. Making the places we live more "green" can improve the livability of housing, and it is important that low- and moderate-income families have the benefit of new construction technologies.

The hearing will look to assess costs of construction of new facilities, financing options for green buildings, and current incentives to take part in such projects.

To learn more about the hearing or submit testimony, contact Zach Shapiro at the Assembly Committee on Housing; shapiroz@assembly.state.ny.us or telephone (518) 455-4355.