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Since the Briscoe School in Beverly, MA was a functioning educational facility as recently as 2018, it is likely that at least some of the seniors soon to be living in its adaptive reuse as housing will have memories of learning the Three Rs there (reading, wRiting and aRithmetic).

For those in affordable housing considering their legacies, there is the example of Philip Freelon to consider.

Charles Dickens’ character Scrooge defined British attitudes towards housing the poor in the 19th century with a dismissive “Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?”

There’s a brave new world of opportunities for “green” multifamily affordable housing renovation and development coming with the ever-quickening ascendancy of green buildings.

Sustainability has become a key concept for affordable housing, charging to the forefront of the industry in recent years, and it’s not just because climate change is mandating the most efficient energy usage at projects.

 A project under construction now in Denver will provide 56 affordable apartments for formerly homeless young adults aged 18 to 24, as well as those “aging out” of foster care.

Converting an old school into apartments isn’t easy.

Many affordable and workforce housing projects have bucolic names referring to picturesque surroundings, like the Stone Mill or Smith Ranch Apartments.

One of the curious things about the enormous Butler Brothers warehouse in St. Louis is that the first world chess championship was held on its site in 1886, about 20 years before the 735,000-square-foot block-long building was built and became one of the largest storage spaces ever constructed in America.

Live, Work, Create Under One Roof

Is a project in Riverside, CA to provide housing for a population as specific as homeless college students something that is replicable?

Developers and state housing agencies are scrambling to find programs that will help workers in expensive communities be able to live in the same towns they work in.