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Escape Tampa Bay Village joins the movement toward compact living.

Without shelter and stability, it can be a true challenge to get both feet on the ground. Affordable housing is such a buzzword these days, but it seems to be difficult to find a solution between material and labor costs. But what if it didn’t have to be that way? For the past four years, […]

Union Studio; Concord Riverwalk Cottages (New Construction of 13 Net Zero possible homes); Concord, Massachusetts.

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As tiny living continues to gain in popularity, tiny home communities have been popping up throughout the United States and are now available coast-to-coast.

Across much of the U.S., apartment rents are rising, vacancy rates are falling. In just about every major urban area, new multifamily rental projects and major renovations are coming online. It may be too soon to pronounce the rental market fully recovered, but the trend is promising.

Pocket neighborhoods are a growing trend across the United States and Canada. They create a friendly supportive community for people in many different stages of their life. Ross Chapin, an architect in Washington first coined the term pocket neighborhoods. Several of those are profiled here.

Workshop8's Paisano Green Community Senior Housing is the first net zero senior housing project in the nation powered by solar and wind energy.

Martin Pretorius, a Capetonian architect with Workshop and Machine has won the coveted San Francisco Affordable Housing Challenge with his project titled,

in china, john friedman alice kimm architects (JFAK) has created a human-scaled neighborhood of detached villas surrounded by water and vegetation.