Today we start week 2 of Impact! Design for Social Change. My group met with Karen Hu and Myriam from the Phipps Houses Group to learn more about the challenges they face as managers of low-income homes and maintenance of a "green community". It was impressive to find out all of the changes and upgrades that have been implemented to one particular building that they manage. The focus has been mainly on energy efficiency and they are in the process of implementing ways of measuring consumption and holding each tenant accountable. There is also a definite challenge within the building, as well as in many others, to get people to recycle even when many of the items and tools are provided to them to make the process much easier. Hopefully, we will be visiting two of their sites tomorrow and learning more about the challenges of the tenants within this community.
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