Architects Can't Design Affordable Housing

An architect and professor chastises her profession for failing to understand how to design truly affordable housing.

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October 26, 2001, 6:00 AM PDT

"In recent years, the closest we've come to genuinely affordable housing has been the concept of industrial loft housing (often called live-work), in which obsolete industrial and commercial buildings were adapted to residential use. Artists, musicians and craftspeople found generous areas of low-cost living space in these buildings, and could pursue their avocations there at the same time."

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FULL STORY: Architects can't seem to design affordable housing

Thursday, October 25, 2001 in The San Francisco Chronicle

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