The Canada Green Building Council (CaGBC) has announced a new Affordable Green Housing program, which will provide free green building registration and certification to charitable building projects.

Working with charitable housing groups like Habitat for Humanity, these free registrations and certifications will be administered by the CaGBC under the internationally-recognized LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) green building certification program, which addresses homes as well as a broad range of other building types.

The first project to take advantage of the program is the Sir Sam Steele project, a group of 32 homes that have been built by Habitat for Humanity Manitoba with the assistance of local LEED Canada for homes provider prairieHOUSE Performance Inc.