Reframing Housing Development: Designing More Affordable Housing

What can be done to reduce the cost of housing, particularly in the United States? To help answer this question, we will bring together a diverse mix of people involved with the design, development, financing, construction, and public oversight of housing for a half-day of presentations, discussions, and networking. The event, which will be open to practitioners, scholars, students and others, will be held on from 1-6:30 pm in Piper Auditorium at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. It will be followed by an informal reception.
Designing More Affordable Housing
Andrew Freear, Director of Auburn University’s Rural Studio; current Loeb Fellow who has been developing prototypes for building inexpensive homes in poor rural areas.
Brian Phillips, Principal, ISA Architects, a firm based in Philadelphia and Cambridge whose portfolio includes 100K Houses and other efforts to produce small, well-designed, super-green residential units.
Michael Thomas, Director of Business Development, Panoramic Interests, a San Francisco Bay Area development firm that is focused on building supportive housing for the homeless, housing for students, seniors, artists, and others.
Moderator: Katie Swenson, VP, National Design Initiatives, Enterprise Community Partners, Inc., who directs Enterprise’s Affordable Housing Design Leadership Institute and its Rose Architectural Fellowship program.

[@joliemwah8694]

The solutions he presents seem so feasible and likely possible. Great presentation!

[@lostinthekerf]

Is the growth of satellite cities that surround urban areas a clear sign of the failure of the semi dense urban cities (top 30 growing cities in USA) and developers in city centers? Where are the super high rises with mixed affordability (poverty - wealthy, with immediate solution based ratios) that can solve so many problems that cities face: transportation, community, infrastructure etc. Four, five, six story multi family dwellings are a very short term solution. We need 40, 60, 100 + story super sky scrapers. Everyone wins, developers get their money and city governments solve many of the problems associated with commuters: retainment of the working class in city centers and the attraction of new arrivals among others. This keeps the huge amount of money that flows outside of city limits when city dwellers are forced out due to increasing costs of staying in the city.

[@tomszumlic8971]

..sort of, kind of, sort of, kind of..