Product Description: The growth of urban areas and population in middle and low income countries is a continuing trend. Urbanization expands as rural to urban migration offers better income opportunities in cities. This trend is both a source of development opportunities and challenges for the housing sector...read more

Product Description: The essential, highly visual architectural design resource for affordable housing Homes Within Reach provides the first systematic guide for planning, designing, and constructing modest, yet high-quality, homes. From siting and foundations to systems, layouts, and interior and exterior finishes, it covers dozens of design and construction techniques that promote housing quality with sensitivity to lowering costs...read more

Product Description: Faith is a Verb is both an account of the author’s five years of volunteering with Habitat for Humanity, the non-profit home-builder, and a history of the organization, which Goodrich sees as a model institution founded on grassroots, Jeffersonian principles...read more

Looks at the organization Habitat for Humanity International, which builds houses for low-income families. (view table of contents)

A study of people who take over vacant buildings and unused land--how they do it, and why it is a good idea.