Unaffordable housing, anyone?

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Unaffordable housing, anyone?
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design and construction
receiving
providing
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design and construction
dwelling
building
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design and construction
dwelling
building
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dwelling
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Apartment building, Santiago Chile

• House Home
• Housing Homing?

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On the building side
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density transit mixed uses
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density transit mixed uses
overcrowding vagrancy outsiders
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density transit mixed uses
overcrowding vagrancy outsiders
traffic the poor litter
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Colorado Court, Pugh Scarpa
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SOLARA apartment community in Poway, CA
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New Columbia in Portland, OR
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Broadway Crossing in Seattle, WA
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On the dwelling side
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• Clotheslines
• Suns heat is free
• No need to cool indoors
• Clothes last longer
• Spend more time outside!

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• Clotheslines
• Operable shutters
• Quiet shading
• Allows air circulation
• Security
• More beautiful than a window unit

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• Clotheslines
• Operable shutters
• Edible yards
• Save money
• Get dirty
• Hey...your own veggies are just better

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• Clotheslines
• Operable shutters
• Edible yards
• Sidewalks
• Healthy people
• Healthy neighborhoods
• Healthy planet
• Buy shoes, not tires

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Can I afford to be green? Can I afford not to
be green?
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Meeting the needs of the present generation
without compromising the ability of future
generations to meet their needs. 1992 Earth
Summit, United Nations Council on Environment
and Development
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Meeting our current needs through creative
stewardship of natural and cultural resources to
meet our needs, our childrens needs, and our
neighbors needs tomorrow, next week, and next
year.
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green community
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