A Pattern Language for Housing Affordability: Difference between revisions

With this articleHere we are attempting to derive a pattern language to describemap ''all possible ways to achieve '''make housing affordability'affordable''. OfAffordability course,is affordabilityof iscourse not the ''only'' problem or goal people have in housing or housing policy, but itthe islens anand importantfocus one, andchosen here we are choosing it as our lens. 

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, ''A Pattern Language for Growing Regions ''(''APLGR; ''[http://www.sustasis.net/APLFGR.html draft version online], printed book forthcoming 2019). This The affordability pattern language here could potentially be integrated with ''APLGR, ''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. 

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