A Pattern Language for Housing Affordability: Difference between revisions

Here we are attempting to derive a pattern language to map ''all possible ways to make housing affordable''. Affordability is of course not the ''only'' problem or goal people have in housing or housing policy;  people also seek housing quality, good design, housing that helps create community or builds wealth, or which helps employment and economic growth in an area, or which contributes to environmental sustainability, etc. Even closer to 'affordability,' one might choose different lenses such as anti-displacement, housing security, housing for all, adequate housing, attainable housing. Nevertheless, affordability (or the somewhat ambigious "affordable housing") is a pervasive concern and framing, and what we choose to focus on here. 

 

 

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;