A new mixed-income community in Ann Arbor, Michigan is an orchestra between solar, nature and net-zero sustainability.
Veridian at Country Farm was a longtime in the making since it was first proposed in 2016. Washentaw County approved the project among six competing proposals for the former youth prison site. At the time, Ann Arbor was on the cusp of an affordable housing crisis, which many of the proposals hoped to solve. What set Veridian apart, however, was the proposal’s coupling of mixed-income housing with sustainability.
U.S. households that earn more than $200,000 per year are four times more likely to adopt solar than households earning less than $50,000 per year, according to a 2024 study published in Energy Research & Social Science…