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Foster + Partners and Sasaki Associates designing Sierra Leone island city for Idris Elba

Deezen

Development for "up to a million people" According to the BBC, the project for the island in the southwest of the country is set to be "financed through a public-private partnership", with Sherbro designated as a special economic zone.

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Updated ADU Laws: SB 897 and HCD’s ADU Handbook

Santa Cruz Architect

Just recently, Freddie Mac updated their ADU financing options and CalHFA extended their ADU Grant Program to help even more homeowners build backyard homes. While the Senate voted to pass the law, it will need to be re-reviewed by the Committee on Governance and Finance before it can be passed into law. Objective Standards Only.

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Port of Beirut renewal by ALIPH: buildings

e-architect

Ashrafieh 569 building before the intervention: photograph © Marianne Gharzouzi Thanks to ALIPH’s agility and its strong network of partnerships, many of these projects were financed quickly and launched without delay. ALIPH finances concrete projects carried on the ground, hand-in-hand with local partners, authorities, and communities.

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Is There a Way Out of Hawaii’s Housing Crisis?

Dwell

When the pandemic began in 2020, Hawaii’s economy reeled. On the supply side, the Hawaii Housing Finance & Development Corporation develops and finances low- and moderate-income housing projects. But transplants shouldn’t necessarily expect a warm welcome. Tourism crashed, and joblessness skyrocketed.

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Housing supply in low-cost and high-cost municipalities

Brandon Donnelly

Here is a housing study that looked at housing supply — in the US from 2000 to 2020 — relative to median housing values. However, as home values increase, the incentive to build and the ability to finance new projects also increases, and that is what we see in the above chart. The math just doesn’t work.

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News: Harvard GSD reveals four 2023 Wheelwright Prize finalists

Bustler

The World Health Organization estimates that almost 800 women died from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth every day in 2020. s Awards for Research in 2018 and 2020. Almost 95% of these deaths occurred in low and lower middle-income countries, and most could have been prevented.

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Why All Architects Should Tackle an Adaptive Reuse Project At Least Once in their Careers

Architizer

In 2020, for example, Architizer introduced the “Adaptive Reuse” category to the A+Awards for the first time ever ; the following year, the Pritzker Prize was awarded to Anne Lacaton and Jeanne-Philippe Vassal, indicating that the values of interpreting place, rather than tabula-rasa scenography, were gaining momentum.

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