Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
To make housing affordable, why don’t we lower its costs, using mass production?
“A car that ordinary Americans can afford.”
Henry Ford with his Model T
For nearly a century, that thesis has appealed to automotive titans, of whom the latest is from India, as reported in the Financial [...]
If slums disappear only through conflagration (natural or man-made) or by assimilation into the formal city, then we will need to take existing informal housing and gradually formalize it.
Because you are what you live in, urbanization requires formality:
But as cities imply increasing physical density (more [...]
In yesterday’s blog post, we heard from Jamaican columnist and developer/ architect Carlton Cunningham, whose his mid-April Gleaner column describes his successful housing development, Old Harbour Glades, that has apparently replaced “the bad lands of Succaba Settlement”:
“Dem a loot, dem a shoot, dem a wail in shanty town”
His summary of how it was done, and [...]
Allow Jamaican columnist and developer/ architect Carlton Cunningham the voice of pride that shines through his mid-April column in The Gleaner as he describes his successful housing development:
Building hope through housing
Jamaican housing is stratified. Uptown erects gated communities while downtown erects settlements at the gates. Some settlers provide valuable services to the gated, while [...]
If we want to make housing affordable, shouldn’t we be looking at inexpensive construction materials? That’s the premise of a short Climate Progress article, Shipping containers provide affordable housing, from the Center for American Progress’s “It’s Easy Being Green” series.
There’s an emerging and innovative solution to the environmental, economic, and housing concerns we face around [...]
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