June 2008 Housing Newsletter

LETTER FROM THE CHAIR
Dear Network Members, This is near the close of my first year as chair of this Professional PracticeNetwork. It has been an eventful year for me as network chair with theannual meeting last October falling practically in my back yard
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Reference List on Housing and Community Design
I am currently compiling a list of references for HCD network members. These include books and articles, and, lest we forget, websites that members have found useful resources for housing and community design. If you have any great sources you
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Making Cohousing Affordable: Strategies and Successes
A glance at a detailed map of U.S. cohousing communities would show that most of us are living in areas of relatively high property values: on the coasts, in college towns or on the outskirts of high-tech growth centers. That’s one reason why making cohousing affordable to the widest possible number of people has been of intense interest to prospective community members throughout the history of the cohousing movement.
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Upcoming Events
These are just a couple of upcoming events related to our network. Members may log onto the Housing and Communitye community calendar on the ASLA website for more events. See http www.asla.org members ppn ecnav.pdf forinstructions for accessing the e
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