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At the Congress for New Urbanism, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced it will use LEED for Neighborhood Development (LEED-ND) to rate the “location efficiency” of community projects applying for its upcoming sustainable community planning grants (see earlier post). In total, HUD has some $3.25 billion available in grant funds. Shaun Donovan, HUD secretary, said “it’s time that federal dollars stopped encouraging sprawl and started lowering the barriers to the kind of sustainable development our country needs and our communities want.”
