Affordable housing used to be about quantity, not quality.
However, as affordable housing projects are increasingly mixed in with market-rate and luxury units, a new trend is emerging with many public housing agencies now turning to architects to bring high design to what used to be a very utilitatian practice.
Monday's Real Estate Journal looked at new public and affordable housing projects in Chicago, Los Angeles, Brooklyn, Seattle, Santa Monica, Oakland, and Jackson Hole.
Some discussion is also given to the issue of NIMBYs - will these hip new designs change attitudes among the general public about public housing?
Thursday, January 3, 2008
Real Estate Journal: High Design for Affordable Housing
