Elise Balboni, president of Enterprise Community Partner’s CDFI, discusses the impact of the Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) Fund.

In greater Boston, Trinity Financial has transformed a former textile powerhouse into healthy, affordable homes certified to Enterprise Green Communities.

Building performance standards – or BPS, outcome-based policies that require buildings to verifiably meet energy or energy performance targets – are part of a national movement driving toward long-term sustainability and a zero-emissions future.

Members of nine tribes from across California recently gathered at a site where 30 homes will be built. The future homes will be part of a Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) development owned by the Tuolumne Economic Development Authority (TEDA), a federally chartered tribal corporation governed by the Tuolumne Me-Wuk Tribe.