COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS: LINKING AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND ACADEMIA

Engineering-Based Methods for Affordable Housing and Sustainable Community Development

Housing is a key component of the U.S. economy: in 2001, housing comprised more than a third of the nation’s tangible assets, and, in the form of home building and remodeling, housing consumption and related spending represented more than 21 percent of the U.S. gross domestic product. Since 2001, home sales, prices, equity and debt have all grown substantially, enabling millions of Americans to...

Lifetime Affordable Housing in Australia

research by Dr John Morrissey, Prof Ralph Horne, Prof Mike Berry and Mr Trivess Moore conducted at the Centre for Design, RMIT University between February 2008 and October 2010. The research examined the relationship between housing cost and provision and long term sustainability limits, considering socio-economic, spatial and inter-generational dimensions. This briefing reports on the influenc...

Lessons of Defence Housing Australia for affordable housing provision

Ulduz Maschaykh: The changing image of affordable housing: design, gentrification and community in Canada and Europe

This book takes an architectural perspective towards understanding the challenge of housing affordability in cities. It is primarily focused on British Columbia, Canada, with a few brief case studies in Europe. The author’s main argument is that: ‘[A]rchitecture can play a pivotal role in diminishing social imbalances and giving people from a broader range of backgrounds a sense of identity and...

Constant Quality Rent Indexes for Affordable Housing

This paper develops and applies a method for producing constant quality rent indexes and inflation estimates for different segments of the rental housing stock. In each of the five contrasting metropolitan areas, rent inflation since the late 1980s is found to have varied by market segment. In some metro areas, rental prices have risen most rapidly in the bottom third of the rent distribution, ...