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The Affordable Housing Design Advisor is a website completed under contract to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development that provides affordable housing tools, a gallery of exemplary projects and a design checklist.
http://www.designadvisor.org (September 26, 2001).

 

Publications

Davis, Sam, ed. 1977. The Form of Housing. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company.

Jones, Tom; Pettus AIA, William; & Pyatok, FAIA, Michael. 1995. Good neighbors: affordable family housing. Melbourne, Australia: The Images Publishing Group Pty. Ltd.

Katz, Peter. 1994. The new urbanism: toward an architecture of community. New York: McGraw-Hill, Inc.

MacDonald, FAIA, Donald. 1996. Democratic architecture: practical solutions to today's housing crisis. New York: Whitney Library of Design; Watson-Guptill Publications.

Marcus, Clare Cooper and Sarkissian, Wendy with Wilson, Sheena and Perlgut, Donald. 1986. Housing as if people mattered: site design guidelines for medium-density family housing. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press.

For additional resources, see Support Household and Neighborhood Fit: Resource List and Affordable Housing: Resource List.

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