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Welcome to the Affordable Housing
Design Advisor
If
you're part of the solution to America's critical affordable
housing challenge, this site is for you. The Affordable Housing
Design Advisor brings together experience and ideas from successful
affordable housing projects all over the country, and the
people who developed, designed and built them.
Good design can make a world of difference for the people
who will live in the affordable housing you help build, and
for the neighborhood surrounding it. The Affordable Housing
Design Advisor is here to help you at every step.
Quick Guide to Using This Site
Brought to You By
Credits and Kudos
| WHAT
is good design? |
The essential tests of
good design in affordable housing, plus a short
course in design fundamentals. |
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WHY is good design important? |
Making the case for the
value of good design in affordable housing.
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| HOW
to achieve good design |
Step by step through the
process of designing and delivering great affordable
housing, from the people who've done it.
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A tool, resource, idea bank and step-by step guide to Design in affordable housing.
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Please take our survey and let us know what and how you are building.
We've used this information to create the Affordable Green Academy,
which you can access below.
Click Here to take survey
What's New
The Affordable Green Academy is here!
Green Housing
AIA Affordable Green Guidelines
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DESIGN CHECKLIST |
Key ideas and strategies for achieving design excellence, with hundreds
of drawings and photographs showing how it's done.
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| GALLERY |
Designing excellent affordable
housing isn't easy, but it's definitely been done.
Ideas, inspiration and know-how from around the
country. |
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NEW
TOOL
Demystifying Density |
 What
is density? What does it look like? How can it benefit
your neighborhood? Follow this link for two new
lectures on the benefits of compact housing.
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