Affordability
The Northern South Park Neighborhood Plan and Code is providing desperately needed affordable housing in Jackson, Wyoming. Opticos Design won a 2026 CNU Charter Award in The Neighborhood, District, and Corridor category.
A careful apples-to-apples analysis shows that the classic urban pattern can actually cost less – but it mostly depends on the shape of the lots.
Challenging some of the assumptions underlying mixed-income housing.
King Charles’s follow-up to Poundbury gets the Gindroz Award for excellence in affordable housing. Nansledan is a large new urban community on the Northwest coast of Cornwall, England.
Micro-units are being built in large numbers in many US cities, renting at a significant discount compared to conventional apartments, according to a report.
The redevelopment of sites owned by faith-based organizations (FBO) is among the decade's biggest urban redevelopment challenges. Some arise from a nationwide wave of church closings—others represent land owned by congregations that could serve a...
Kalamazoo has allocated $480,000 to build three cottages from its catalog of pre-approved plans. The Michigan city will build the 864 sq. ft. single houses on infill land owned by the Kalamazoo County Land Bank. Construction is expected to begin in...
A design for a North Carolina Habitat for Humanity chapter fits a range of infill locations with standardized production.
A ‘missing middle’ design creatively maximizes space to provide an affordable workforce option in Beaufort and beyond.
A new report highlights how planners can help households reduce cost of living through policies that boost low-cost modes of mobility.
A tiny village of affordable cottages has just been built in Asheville, and the timing is fortuitous. That region desperately needs emergency housing that could also last and contribute to long-term sustainability.
Kalamazoo represents our nationwide housing problem, but the City also has a four-part strategy to create more units that add to neighborhoods and affordability.