photo by: Ashley Golledge

Tenants to Homeowners' first affordable solar-powered home, at 1443 Prairie Ave., is pictured at an open house event on Friday, June 18, 2021.

Nonprofit organization Tenants to Homeowners held an open house Friday for its first affordable home that uses solar power. The two-bedroom, 925-square-foot home at 1443 Prairie Ave. also takes advantage of Lawrence’s density bonus, which allows two homes to be built on lots of a certain size as long as both homes remain permanently affordable.

Like other Tenants to Homeowners projects, the solar-powered small home will be sold at an affordable price to a qualifying owner and remain in a permanently affordable community land trust into the future.

photo by: Ashley Golledge

Local high school students built this shed for the Tenants to Homeowners affordable home at 1443 Prairie Ave. The shed, which is designed to be shared by three homes, is pictured on Friday, June 18, 2021.

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Storage space is pictured inside Tenants to Homeowners’ first affordable solar-powered home, at 1443 Prairie Ave., on Friday, June 18, 2021.

photo by: Ashley Golledge

People mingle at an open-house event for Tenants to Homeowners’ first affordable solar-powered home, at 1443 Prairie Ave., on Friday, June 18, 2021.

photo by: Ashley Golledge

The kitchen in Tenants to Homeowners’ first affordable solar-powered home, at 1443 Prairie Ave., is pictured at an open house event on Friday, June 18, 2021.

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Good Energy Solutions CEO Malcolm Proudfit, right, and solar sales consultant Dave Schmidt are pictured at an open house event for Tenants to Homeowners’ first affordable solar-powered home, at 1443 Prairie Ave., on Friday, June 18, 2021.

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Tenants to Homeowners Executive Director Rebecca Buford is pictured at an open house for the nonprofit’s first affordable solar-powered home, at 1443 Prairie Ave., on Friday, June 18, 2021.

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Tenants to Homeowners Executive Director Rebecca Buford and architect Mike Myers participate in an open-house event for Tenants to Homeowners’ first affordable solar-powered home, at 1443 Prairie Ave., on Friday, June 18, 2021. Myers designed the home.

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The bathroom of Tenants to Homeowners’ first affordable solar-powered home, at 1443 Prairie Ave., is pictured at an open house event on Friday, June 18, 2021.

photo by: Ashley Golledge

A bedroom of Tenants to Homeowners’ first affordable solar-powered home, at 1443 Prairie Ave., is pictured at an open house event on Friday, June 18, 2021.

photo by: Ashley Golledge

A bedroom of Tenants to Homeowners’ first affordable solar-powered home, at 1443 Prairie Ave., is pictured at an open house event on Friday, June 18, 2021.