“Home Depot Architecture: How one developer is turning farm storage into sleek apartments” in this week’s Fast Company is a quick look at an inspiring architectural project going up in Detroit. Since… Read More
Home Depot Architecture in Detroit
Biden’s Funds for Affordable Housing
President Biden’s 213 billion plan is one of the most significant investments in affordable housing in the nation’s history. — Nate Berg in Fast Company It was such a surprise to wake… Read More
Designing Low Cost Housing that Works
Ty Albright, a developer and commercial real estate agent in the Dallas area for many years, has completed the first low-cost house in East Side Bluff, a planned pocket neighborhood of eight… Read More
My Grandmother’s House
My grandmother’s house was a white frame cottage, very neat and tidy, on the corner of two unpaved roads and with an outhouse in the backyard next to an apple tree. A… Read More
Is Consensus Decision-Making Hard?
In cohousing communities, consensus decision-making is the standard. And the fearful question is “Is consensus decision-making hard?” In consensus decision-making,* all decision-makers work together to decide how the community will function, how… Read More
Investors are buying trailer parks
An article from the Financial Times, 7 February 2020, is intriguing: “Why big investors are buying up American trailer parks. Amid an affordable housing crisis, residents are battling private equity and others over… Read More