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USDA Self Help Housing Examples

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jspence

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Good Day-

I am trying to find photos or sketches of successful multi-family (townhome style) USDA self help housing. We have a proposal that is lacking in quality and would like to show the applicant that it can be done another way. I don't believe that affordable housing should be distiguishable by its lack of architectural treatments or thoughtful site planning. The last thing we want to do is create future opportunites for renewal.

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BKM

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I would contact Mercy Housing in California-or Davis, CA. However, most of their self-help products have been single family.
 
Cardinal

Cardinal

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Check out the book "Good Neighbors: Affordable Family Housing." It offers hundreds of examples from around the country, and led me to this architectural firm, which is now designing an office building for us.
 
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