Affordability
A ‘missing middle’ design creatively maximizes space to provide an affordable workforce option in Beaufort and beyond.
A new report highlights how planners can help households reduce cost of living through policies that boost low-cost modes of mobility.
A tiny village of affordable cottages has just been built in Asheville, and the timing is fortuitous. That region desperately needs emergency housing that could also last and contribute to long-term sustainability.
Kalamazoo represents our nationwide housing problem, but the City also has a four-part strategy to create more units that add to neighborhoods and affordability.
Artspace demonstrates the diversity of strategies for addressing America’s affordable housing problems. In some cases, they are the lynchpin of downtown revival.
Urbanists must use the fundamentals of construction to build affordably in an age of soaring housing costs and interest rates and avoid “cheap-washing.”
Prototypes of small, private, dignified housing with access to transportation and services address a growing homeless problem in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
There is no silver bullet to building an affordable house—you must save money in most construction areas, while good taste compensates for a lack of luxuries. The book Building an Affordable House will get you started.
Westlawn Gardens in Milwaukee is a case study in how to address the three main affordability components: Affordable to build, to rent or own, and to live in. All three strategies are critical.
Pre-approved building plans can address the housing crisis by reducing regulatory friction around high-quality residential designs that fit a community’s vernacular.
As rising rents and exclusionary zoning have failed to provide housing for many, a Durham church looks at an ancient model of homes for the elderly.
Larkin Place in Elgin, Illinois, is the adaptive reuse of a historic orphanage, on a block with affordable missing middle housing. Full Circle Development and Cordogan Clark won a CNU 2023 Charter Award in the Block, Street, and Building category.