Some of Canada's greenest apartments go for as little as $85 per month — thanks to social housing providers who have embraced energy efficiency standards and green building techniques. What kind of green affordable housing is being built? A timelapse video shows the construction of YWKW's Block Line Road affordable housing complex in Kitchener, Ont. LISTEN | Reporter Emily Chung takes you on a tour of green affordable housing: What On Earth 12:42 Green affordable housing tackles housing and climate crisis together Residents of affordable apartments share how their eco-friendly homes have changed their lives. But he says adapting it for affordable housing has opened up new opportunities — "not just in some other supportive and affordable housing projects, but market rate housing as well."
