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When the Coffelt-Lamoreaux public housing project was built in 1953 for veterans returning from the Korean War and migrant seasonal agricultural workers, its 38-acre site on the southwest corner of Buckeye Road and 19th Avenue was considered country by locals and wasn’t even within the Phoenix, AZ city limits.

Affordable housing specialist Woda Cooper Companies, Inc. not only has a new name and headquarters, it has a new ownership structure that may become a model for the industry.

This spring, engineering professors and students from universities across the country descended upon the sprawling, tree-filled campus of Stony Brook University, just a few miles from where Long Island meets the Sound, to explore technical innovations aimed at helping people age in their homes.

HUD’s HOPE VI program was developed to deal with severely distressed public housing through three critical factors: physical improvement, management improvement and social and community services.

It’s a well-known problem in many areas of the country: A pernicious combination of high land values, mounting construction costs, super-gentrification and lagging wages have conspired to put decent housing out of reach for the workforce on which the increasingly affluent community depends.

Boston’s vibrant neighborhoods, cultural assets, productive workforce, innovative businesses and renowned hospitals and universities have spurred an era of rapid growth.

In these last few decades, as Americans have flocked to major metros, two economic trends have surfaced.

The South has played a crucial role in American history, and by extension, in the nation’s architectural legacy.

When, in the 1960’s, Lyndon Johnson launched the federal government into the regulated public- private partnership era of affordable housing delivery, the initiative drew on two decades of multifamily rental experience, about which until very recently I knew nothing – the benevolent insurance-company as workforce housing investor/developer.

Low Income Housing Tax Credit project in Columbus, OH is giving a fresh perspective to the concept of workforce housing.

Doctors don’t always diagnose the source of an ailment and as a result sometimes prescribe the wrong medicine.

Workforce housing is on the minds of the elected officials of Montgomery County, MD even more than it normally is.