Cincinnati Scholar Wins LEED Homes Award

The Cincinnati Scholar House has won the 2021 LEED Homes Award for Outstanding Affordable Housing Project. This LEED Platinum project provides affordable housing and support services to single parents pursuing a college degree.

The Scholar House model aims to remove the barriers that often prevent low-income single parents from pursuing post-secondary education, and in doing so, aims to break the cycle of poverty and help families achieve economic self-sufficiency. It does this by co-locating numerous support services, chief among them a high-quality early childhood education center. Other services help to connect parents with work study programs, financial aid, mentoring, and other resources. Subsidy ensures that families pay no more than 30% of their income toward rent and utilities.

The LEED Homes Awards recognize the most innovative and transformative LEED-certified residential projects from around the world.

You can read more about the project here.