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-With this article we&nbsp;are&nbsp;attempting to derive a pattern language to describe all ways to achieve '''housing affordability'''. Of course, affordability is not the ''only'' problem or goal people have in housing or housing policy, but it is an important one, and here we are choosing it as our lens.&nbsp;
+Here we&nbsp;are&nbsp;attempting to derive a pattern language to map ''all possible ways to make&nbsp;housing affordable''. Affordability is of course not the ''only'' problem or goal people have in housing or housing policy, but the lens and focus chosen here.
-Ward Cunningham and fellow Portlander, urbanist, architectural theorist Michael Mehaffy have been working with others on a new pattern language and online pattern repository,&nbsp;''A Pattern Language for Growing Regions&nbsp;''(''APLGR;&nbsp;''[http://www.sustasis.net/APLFGR.html draft version online], printed book forthcoming 2019). This affordability pattern language could potentially be integrated&nbsp;with&nbsp;''APLGR,&nbsp;''and others pattern languages such as a proposed "[[Portland_Civic_Patterns_Repository|Portland Civic Patterns Repository]]" ''[citation needed] ''to describe approaches for civic governance and engagement.&nbsp;
+Wiki inventor Ward Cunningham, and fellow Portlander, urbanist, & architectural theorist Michael Mehaffy have been working with others on a new pattern language and online pattern repository,&nbsp;''A Pattern Language for Growing Regions&nbsp;''(''APLGR;&nbsp;''[http://www.sustasis.net/APLFGR.html draft version online], printed book forthcoming 2019). The&nbsp;affordability pattern language here could potentially be integrated&nbsp;with&nbsp;''APLGR,&nbsp;''and others pattern languages such as a proposed "[[Portland_Civic_Patterns_Repository|Portland Civic Patterns Repository]]" ''[citation needed] ''to describe approaches for civic governance and engagement.&nbsp;
-Mehaffy talks about wikis and pattern languages as tools for "consensus development." ''[citation needed]''. In that vein, I've been thinking with this affordability language&nbsp;about how to show varied patterns -- from public housing to 'abundant' market housing -- as all being possible sources of or factors in affordability. In most cases, they may be&nbsp;integrable, instead of conflicting, ideas/approaches.
+Mehaffy talks about wikis and pattern languages as tools for "consensus development." ''[citation needed]''. In that vein, one of the purposes of this affordability pattern language&nbsp;is to suggest that quite varied patterns -- from public housing to 'abundant' market housing -- may&nbsp;all be&nbsp;sources of or factors in affordability, and considered practically rather than ideologically, they might often be combined in various ways, in a project or an environment.&nbsp;<br/> <br/> &nbsp;
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 == Housing Affordability Patterns ==