First Community Housing:

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• First Community Housing
• A Portfolio-Wide Approach to
• Green Affordable Housing

Presented by Jeff Oberdorfer
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Portfolio Priorities

• Long-term vision - 55 years
• Provide high degree of resident services
• Ecological responsibility and biological
  diversity
• Quality design, incorporated early
• Transit Oriented
• Portfolio-wide Green OM manual
• Mainstreaming special populations
• Public Education

Solar heated pool and rec building powered by
Photovoltaics on carports
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Existing Portfolio

• Green turnover
• Cabinets
• Linoleum
• Recycled/recyclable carpets
• Energy Star appliances
• No VOC paint
• Water conservation
• Ecological review - Biodiversity
• Site Lighting
• Photovoltaics

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Project Priorities

• Tenant comfort health
• Functional, Durable, Low environmental impact
  products
• Biological Diversity
• Green operations and maintenance
• Transit Oriented/Ecopasses

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IAQ Indoor Air Quality

• Natural ventilation
• Vented bathrooms kitchens
• No VOC finishes
• Non formaldehyde trim shelving
• Non toxic flooring
• LEED Silver rated FFE
• Commissioning Peer Review

No VOC Medite cabinets Linoleum
flooring Interface carpet squares
Wheat board recycled steel office
furniture on recycled content carpet
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Transit
First Community Housing EcoPass Report as of Dec
31, 2005

Property Type of Housing Type of Housing Passes Provided Total Cost _at_ 30 each
Guadalupe Apts Family Family 31 930
Paula Apts Family Family 27 810
Troy Apts Family Family 37 1110
Los Esteros Family Family 465 13,950
Creekview Inn SRO SRO 24 720
Orchard Gardens Rehab Rehab 65 1950
Craig Gardens Senior Senior 90 2700
Betty Ann Gardens Family Family 120 3600
Murphy Ranch Family Family 100 3000
El Paseo Studios SRO SRO 98 2940
      1057 31,710
A family at Murphy Ranch gets photos taken for
their EcoPasses
First Community Housing is the Largest Purchaser
of Residential EcoPasses in Santa Clara County
FCH initiated pilot program with SamTrans
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Team Approach to Development

• Design/Build Negotiated Contractor Teams from
  Project start
• Use same teams over again to delete learning
  curve
• In-house Construction Management from Project
  inception
• Economies of scale - building several projects at
  a time
• Project management is spread throughout the firm
• Biologist added to team 2005

LEED team meeting
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Phase 1

• Paseo Studios (SRO)
• Murphy Ranch (Family)
• Betty Ann Gardens (Family)
• Ecopasses
• Energy efficiency 25 greater than Title 24
  (2001)
• Low emitting cabinets
• Photovoltaic systems
• Energy Star appliances
• Green FFE
• General population 30 50 AMI

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Betty Ann Gardens

• All gas appliances
• Energy-Star appliances
• Hydronic heating and cooling
• All fluorescent light fixtures
• Low-flow water fixtures
• Linoleum and recycled content carpet
• Medite no VOC/no formaldehyde cabinets
• Hardiboard fiber-cement siding
• Non-formaldehyde batt insulation
• Engineered structural lumber
• Sustainable harvest teak site benches
• Sustainable harvest teak lobby furniture
• Wheat composite office/ computer room furniture
• 99 recyclable office chairs
• Eco-shake recycled content roof shingles
• Free EcoPasses to residents
• Riparian restoration and protection
• Heritage trees incorporated into development

• East San Jose
• 78 Unit Family Project
• Exceeds 2001 Title 24 by 25

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El Paseo Studios100 Unit SRO, San Jose

• Non formaldehyde insulation
• Fluorescent lighting
• Energy Star Appliances
• Cool roof assembly
• MDF vs. wood interior trim
• Low VOC Paint
• Non formaldehyde MDF for cabinets, non toxic
  finish
• Recyclable Carpet, Recycled pad
• Linoleum flooring
• Recycled content metal siding

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Murphy Ranch

• All gas appliances
• Adjacent to transit, with free Eco-passes for
  all residents
• Community Room with solar-heated pool
• Computer Lab with DSL Internet access
• Hydronic heating and cooling
• All fluorescent light fixtures
• Low-flow water fixtures
• Non-formaldehyde insulation
• Sustainable-harvest teak outdoor pool area
  furniture and recreation building furniture
• Photovoltaic electricity generation for 90 of
  common area uses
• Washer / Dryer in each unit
• Private back yards
• Extensive, landscaped common areas

Morgan Hill, CA 100 Family Townhouses Exceeds
2001Title 24 by 26
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Fat Spaniel Energy Monitoring System at Murphy
Ranch
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Phase 2 LEED
Includes all Phase 1 Elements All Non Smoking

• Gish Apartments
• LEED NC 2.1 Silver
• LEED Multifamily Pilot Silver
• GreenPoints Multifamily Pilot
• 35 DD Population

• Casa Feliz SRO
• LEED NC 2.2 Gold
• Living Roof
• 35 DD population
• Living roof for endangered species

• Villa Montgomery
• LEED NC 2.1 Silver

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Gish Apartments Family Housing

• Infill site
• Brownfield site
• On Light Rail Line
• Eco-passes
• Mixed Use
• 35 Family Units
• 35 DD population
• 30 - 50 AMI
• Standard FCH
  
  
  Green Finishes
• Photovoltaics
• Green Cabinets

LEED NC Registered LEED for Homes
Pilot Greenpoints - Pilot
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Villa Montgomery

• 58 Unit Family Development
• Redwood City, CA
• Infill site
• Brownfield site
• On Rail Line
• Eco-passes
• 35 Family Units
• 30 - 50 AMI
• Standard FCH
• Green Finishes
• Photovoltaics
• Green Cabinets
• No vinyl finishes

LEED NC Silver Candidate
Part of El Camino Design Plan PVs
provide 30 of common area costs
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Casa Feliz SRO

• 60 unit SRO
• 35 DD population
• 30 40 AMI
• LEED Gold candidate
• Living Roof vs. 300,000 storm water drain
  upgrade
• Butterfly Habitat Bay Checkerspot

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Phase 3 - Beyond LEED Includes Commissioning

• Salinas Gateway
• 35 DD
• Living Roof Not Accessible
• Native Plant coordination
• 1470 N. 4th St
• 35 DD
• Accessible Demonstration Roof
• Living Roof Endangered Butterfly and Flora
• Accessible Podium living roof
• Native Plant coordination
• Japantown Senior Apartments
• Inclusionary for larger project
• Butterfly habitat
• Native Plant coordination
• All projects have Organic, locally grown, native
  plant material

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Living Roofs Podiums
Organically raised native plants

• Measuring rainwater runoff for specific roof
  design

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1470 North 4th Street, San Jose

• 100 Family Apts
• 30 50 AMI
• 35 DD
• Demonstration Living Roof
• Coordinated organic, native plants on upper
  terrace and podium

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Salinas Gateway Apartments

• 52 TOD units
• 35 DD
• Living Roof to meet City storm water runoff
  requirements
• Podium with coordinated native, organic plants
• Gateway Urban Development

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Project Approach vs. Portfolio Approach
Are there reasons we shouldnt add a living roof ?

• Should we add a living roof?

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• Project Approach
• Maintains standard nonprofit development process
  and pursues add-on green funding
• Starts with few green elements at little or no
  cost
• Obtains technical assistance from groups
  assisting nonprofit housing developers
• Adds green components by project
• Administration hasnt internalized Sustainability
  but support green building

• Portfolio Approach
• Corporate culture has internalized Sustainability
  
• Focus on sustainability as a goal
• Review entire portfolio economies of scale,
  purchasing power and Ecological diversity
• Incorporated into OM, requiring additional asset
  oversight
• Construction Management, Green Project management
  OM. Continuity of staff, design and
  construction teams dont start from square one.
  Teams understand effort and standards.
• Limits learning curve

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• First Community Housing
• A Portfolio-Wide Approach to
• Green Affordable Housing