Correspondence

Neighborhood of Seventy Low Cost Houses: Overview of discussion with Christopher Alexander regarding the funding to build one house. Christopher Alexander is emphatic that he can assist on this. One path forward is that C.E.S. will work with World Bank and the Canadian government. Further information about reasonable deadlines is provided.

20/08/1991

Financial, Response to Request

Content of

Project 1 Items

Neighborhood of Seventy Low Cost Houses 1986 to 1991

Santa Rosa de Cabal, Risaralda, Colombia

Low Cost Housing, Realized , Construction completed in 1993; C.E.S. involvement ended in 1991

Seventy low-cost houses in 4,2 acres, designed by families, and partially built by families, as part of the self help construction process of Construyamos, the largest self help cooperative in Colombia, with a total construction volume of 50,000 houses per ...

References

Correspondence 5 Items

Neighborhood of Seventy Low Cost Houses: Request for status to be provided after meeting with the families so that Christopher Alexander will have a clear understanding of the problem and be prepared with a position to handle the issues. Additionally questions of the status of requested data. 14/08/1991

Project, Administrative, Request for Feedback
Neighborhood of Seventy Low Cost Houses: Response for request to provide status from the meeting with the families. Provides an outline of two possible options for the family houses; either they are all the same, or all the families build one house, as a prototype, to demonstrate to the banks feasibility, costs and savings. An additional request for Christopher Alexander to find funding to build the prototype house, as this currently seems a better option. 16/08/1991

Project, Construction Works, Response to Request
Neighborhood of Seventy Low Cost Houses: Short note indicating that since the funding will be found by Christopher Alexander for the first house, construction could begin as soon as possible, in order to get it completed by year's end, as required for receivng further funding. It includes additional request for Christopher Alexander to travel to the project site for expressing his support for CIDA, Construyamos etc. 27/08/1991

Project, Construction Works, Financial Support
Neighborhood of Seventy Low Cost Houses: Regarding the reunion meeting: Construction on the one house cannot begin until the conditions of the $5000.00 is understood be it a loan, a gift etc. Then contracts by families must be signed in order for construction to commence. Time is of the essence 06/09/1991

Project, Financial, Outstanding Issues
Neighborhood of Seventy Low Cost Houses: Continued dialogue concerning the funding for the first house, as well as John Neilson's support offer to help with the costs for a second model. Additional sources from Savings and Loans type bank is under consideration. Awaiting Christopher's return from Italy to commence in-depth conversation 10/09/1991

Project, Construction Works, Financial Support

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