What's New
Crack open the 2026 Enterprise Green Communities Criteria!
Webinars & Events
April 13, 2026
Enterprise Green Communities at 20: Celebrating Impact and Innovation
Join us in person, or virtually, at the National Building Museum to kick off the next iteration of the Criteria!
May 14, 2026
Getting Started: Certifying to the 2026 Criteria
Navigate the certification process with confidence — and the right set of tools.
Join our certification team for this nuts-and-bolts session, including a demo of the updated certification portal. See where to find everything you’ll need to certify under the 2026 standard, including templates, tools, specs, and more. An essential learning opportunity for criteria power users.
Transitioning from 2020 to 2026
See what changed between our 2020 and 2026 programs; take a look at the narrative and spreadsheet for a side-by-side comparison of the two:
Starting in April of 2026 projects can submit new prebuild applications to the 2026 Green Communities Criteria. Between April and the end of September, feel free to choose whether you would like to submit a prebuild application with the 2020 or 2026 Criteria. Starting October 1st, we’ll retire the 2020 Criteria from use with new prebuild applications; all first time prebuild submittals from that day forward will only be accepted with the 2026 Criteria. Any project that does submit a prebuild application with the 2020 Criteria will continue to use that version of the Green Communities Criteria, regardless of its construction schedule – you won’t need to switch versions for postbuild. However, if you would like, starting this April, any project using the 2020 Criteria may choose to demonstrate compliance with the requirements of a 2026, rather than 2020, criterion. To document this, please submit a waiver request via the application portal. Such requests will be automatically approved, assuming a proper use case. If you have any questions or concerns, please reach out to our team at certification@enterprisecommunity.org.
We look forward to working with you to certify your properties to this new best-in-class standard for healthy, safe, cost-effective affordable housing!