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TP10 Models of Affordable Housing: Making Boston a Place for All People HSW CANCELLED
05/14/2008, 8:30 AM - 5:30 PM


Learning Units: 7.00-Bus and Walking Tour
Training Units: 2.00-Training Area 17 (Planning)
In 2000 Mayor Thomas M. Menino launched the city's first housing strategy, called Leading the Way. Over the next seven years, the city permitted more than 18,000 units of new housing of which than 4,800 are affordable. Another 5,000 affordable rental units have been saved from going market rate, and more than 1,600 public housing units have been redeveloped or renovated.

We believe that the most important ingredient to the city's recipe for success has been the many nonprofit groups that have partnered with the city, commercial developers, and each other. This daylong tour begins with leading community development corporations in Boston like Nuestra Communidad, Orchard Park, Urban Edge, the Allston Brighton, and the Grove Hall Community Development Corporation, along with commercial partners like Trinity Financial and New Boston Fund. We meet representatives from collaborating nonprofits working to end homelessness, urban asthma, and social injustice; and others generating new models like on-site recovery programs, multigenerational housing, and cohousing.

Then we tour Boston with stops in Allston Brighton, Dorchester, Jamaica Plain, Mattapan, Roxbury, and the South End. We visit both large and small projects, including transit-oriented development in Jackson Square, cohousing near Green Street Station, green housing in Egleston Square, assisted living, mixed-use projects along with new units in a former tuberculosis clinic, a former state hospital, and an old brewery.

We will view the work of local architecture firms, including ADD Inc., Bergmeyer Associates, Chia Ming Sze Architect, Leers Weinzapfel Associates (2007 AIA Architecture Firm Award), Mostue & Associates, Elton & Hampton, and The Architectural Team. Participants will observe an extraordinary range of design approaches, all of which address the need for new ways to make housing affordable for all people. Lunch is included.

Learning Objectives:
  • Examine an extraordinary range of design approaches shaped by more than seven architecture firms that address the need to make housing affordable for all people
  • Assess tools that support the aggressive development of affordable housing in a big price urban center, including inclusionary development, creative financing, and community-driven planning
  • Compare and contrast leaders of Boston's community development corporations, who work with architects to find design solutions that support their public programming
TP10 Wednesday, 8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m., $150

Core Discipline: Design