Our partners, Southface Energy Institute and the Virginia Center for Housing Research (VCHR) at Virginia Tech, published The Impact of Green Affordable Housing in January 2016. The results suggest green developments are nearly 5% less expensive on total construction costs per square foot and more than 13% less expensive on soft construction costs than the non-green developments. More specifically, analysis indicates that green certified developments in GA, NC and SC cost less to design and build than non-green alternatives in AL and SC.