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What's next for affordable housing in 2024?

BD+C

We’re seeing affordable housing in a variety of scales and types, with increasing emphasis on sustainable design—from Passive House design to sustainably sourced material selection. This is part of what it means to build a sustainable, resilient, and equitable community. The results thus far are mixed.

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Event: Building Socially Sustainable Communities: Bridging the Divide at Essex Crossing

Bustler

Building Socially Sustainable Communities presents a new vision for creating sustainable urban neighborhoods and invites design professionals to use the partnership model established at Essex Crossing as a tool for enacting positive change within their own communities.

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Habitat For Humanity Doesn’t Just Give Away Houses

Dwell

So we started to do a lot more incremental construction, rather than building whole houses, and do a lot more through financing. Most of the financing isn’t direct A to B; we made a big bet on microfinancing, in particular. a lot of the change we need is local, connected with land use and zoning. In the U.S.,

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Reinvestment without displacement: North Avenue Market

Community Architect Daily

Obviously, the intersection of these two zones has a pull in both directions. In all cases money from the Future Fund seeded the project and all types of other funds and tax credits are used to finance the usually very high cost of building stabilization and repair to save the buildings and the users that have found a home in them.

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Trends to watch shaping the future of ESG

BD+C

Trends to watch shaping the future of ESG 0 qpurcell Wed, 03/13/2024 - 09:46 Sustainability Gensler’s Climate Action & Sustainability Services Leaders Anthony Brower, Juliette Morgan, and Kirsten Ritchie discuss trends shaping the future of environmental, social, and governance (ESG). I would add zoning to the conversation.

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100 Women to Watch in Architecture

Architizer

Right: Public Farm 1, a 2008 installation on the grounds of Long Island City’s MoMA PS1 by Amale Andraos’s firm, WORKac; the museum described the installation as “a living structure made from inexpensive and sustainable materials recyclable after its use at PS1”; images via MoMA PS1 and Archinect. Governments ignore that at their peril.”.

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Density - Dirty Word or Solution?

Community Architect Daily

A train without development: Failing mall next to a transit station (Photo: Philipsen) With zoning squarely in the hands of local council representatives, NIMBY pressure is always on them to keep new housing in existing communities at bay, especially denser multifamily housing that could bring "those people" to their neighborhood.

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