CU Boulder students, who have won the Solar Decathlon three times, will be using sustainable materials and technology to build their state-of-the-art energy efficient carriage-style home at the Ponderosa Mobile Home Park in North Boulder. CU Boulder’s Solar Decathlon team, in partnership with Flatirons Habitat for Humanity, has broken ground on a net-zero energy home that is part of the Ponderosa Community Stabilization Project. The mobile home park is owned by the City of Bo

Flatirons Habitat has focused over the past 15 years on building homes that are energy efficient. That saves our homeowners money! When we build homes, we make sure that we are being energy efficient in the materials we use and the way our homes are constructed. By making our homes more energy efficient, it lowers the cost burden for our homeowners leading to more affordable housing in the community. One of the ways we accomplish this is by using certain lengths of wood that

In the last two years, Colorado housing prices have increased by more than 26%, resulting in the median home price being more than $570,000. The proposed ballot measure, known as Proposition 123, aims to make housing more affordable for the average resident. The idea is to be able to provide down payment assistance for first-time homebuyers, as well as lowering rent and building more affordable housing across the state. The goal is to have the proposition on the November ball

The idea is to create homes that are fully built and finished in a factory. Those homes then can be delivered to a build site and placed on foundations! Flatirons Habitat is working with the city of Boulder and the Boulder Valley School District to create a facility that would produce what is called modular homes. If this plan goes through, it will allow us to produce affordable homes quicker and more efficiently. These homes then would be able to be transported to certain bu