Successfully Blending In Affordable Housing

A postive lesson for advocates of mixed-income housing.

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August 20, 2001, 7:00 AM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

Fairfax County Virginia has a new program that rewards developers for designing affordable housing to fit in with surrounding (more expensive) homes. "The architectural illusion -- making four $125,000 town houses look like the single-family estates that sell for nearly a million -- is intended to comfort the affluent buyers and others in the neighborhood who are uneasy about living near the required affordable housing."

Thanks to Patrick Moan

FULL STORY: Find the Affordable Housing in This Picture

Thursday, August 16, 2001 in The Washington Post

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