Housing Plan for Self Help Housing: Financing and cost analysis

09/03/1992

Financial, Business Plan

4-page analysis of all the economic variables involved in purchasing a low-cost self-help house. Income and expenses are analyzed over a 34-year period on the basis of pre-defined assumptions. The first page summarizes the basic variables in three stages –after the first 14 years, then at the 26th year, and at the final year.

Authors:

James Maguire, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Content of

Project

Plan and Process for Self-help Housing 1988 to 1991

Washington, D.C., U.S.A.

Low Cost Housing, Designed , Completed in 1991

Client:

Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation - Mr. James Maguire

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, others

Project cost:

$46,000

Project stages:

Generative rules for urban growth process Generative rules for house layout process by users Implementation process

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 ...