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American Housing Month – June 2023 Is Here!!!

Aric Gitomer Architect

During American Housing Month, organizations and government agencies across the country may hold events, workshops, and outreach programs to educate the public on housing-related issues. Each year, the American Housing Survey (AHS) is sponsored is sponsored by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and conducted by the U.S.

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Trying to Buy? ADU Rental Fees Can Now Be Used as Income to Secure Your Mortgage

Dwell

But this week, the Department of Housing and Urban Development announced new policies that expand mortgage financing options for dwellings that have, or will include, an ADU. In California, recent ADU policies have catered to existing homeowners. Under this framing, ADUs could play an important role in increasing housing density.

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How Will the Next President Fix the Housing Crisis?

Dwell

Though the federal government has typically addressed housing through the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), leaving much of the legwork to local municipalities, the two front-runner candidates are thinking…differently…about how federal programs might support new initiatives for affordability.

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Marcel Breuer’s Brutalist Washington DC offices reimagined as Affordable Housing by Brooks + Scarpa

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Serving as the headquarters of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), this ten-story, 700,000 square-foot office building has been a symbol of federal authority since its completion in 1968.

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LI City Study, Jiang Su Sheng, China

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Renovation: Changes in Architectural and Spatial Functions LI City Study is located in the Tianmu Lake Resort in Liyang City. As a government-sponsored public welfare project, it realizes the convenience of shared urban cultural spaces and provides a public space for citizens and tourists to read books for free 24 hours a day.

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Norilsk Design Competition, Russia

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The competion is mainly focussed on a view on the physical and urban development of the city, its landscape and also economic and touristic promotion. For me the social development is also an important second part of this view on the future. All of us have a lot of work to do if we want to renovate the city of Norilsk.

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WXCA wins competition for reconstruction of Saxon Palace

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A few years ago, before the 100th anniversary of Poland regaining its independence, the Polish Government restored the priority of the project. According to the competition assumption, the Palace will be rebuilt in its external Neoclassicist form of 1939. The reconstruction project was put off in time because of the global financial crisis.

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