Plan and Process for Self-help Housing

Innovative process, introducing a system of user participation for the production of affordable single family housing for ownership, as a basis for improving quality of life. This program was intended to bring the insights and successes of various C.E.S. overseas projects, into the orbit of Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation low income housing projects in the United States. Planning, design, and construction management process for houses to be built by Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation, with pilot projects in Richmond, California and/ or Santa Cruz, California. The project aims to develop a process capable of building houses at a low budget, and in a way which encourages community among the families who get the houses. Houses range from 650 sf to 1150 st, are sited at 12 to 14 houses per acre, and cost, on the average, $90,000 each.