Housing
- Assisted Living
- Cohousing (often typed “co-housing”).
- Densely clustered housing
- Green roofs; rooftop gardens
- Manufactured and Prefabricated Homes
- Appropedia page: Prefabricated Buildings. Prefabricated buildings.
- https://www.energytech.com/energy-efficiency/article/55275529/prefab-fore-manufactured-housing-brings-next-gen-energy-efficiency-to-the-mobile-home
- Milwaukee plans net-zero affordable homes. https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/enn/milwaukee-plans-to-build-net-zero-modular-homes-for-lower-income-residents-but-its-not-easy
- Certified PassivHouse plans. Ekobuilt. https://ekobuilt.com/passive-house-kit/
- Survey report. https://elemental.green/18-inexpensive-sustainable-homes-almost-anyone-can-afford/
- U.S. Department of Energy. https://www.energy.gov/eere/buildings/affordable-and-energy-efficient-manufactured-housing
- https://www.buildwithrise.com/stories/innovative-net-zero-prefab-homes
- https://billionbricks.org/blog/modular-houses-for-a-net-zero-lifestyle-a-sustainable-housing-revolution/
- Passive House (Passiv Haus) construction practices
- Rachel Carlson Ecovillage, Pennsylvania. https://rachelcarsonecovillage.org/
- Solar energy
- Active solar
- Passive solar
- Trombe Walls
- Tiny Houses:
- Appropedia Tiny house movement
- Appropedia Tiny house search and Tiny houses search
- Tiny Home Neighborhoods:
- Michigan: Cass Tiny Homes Project in Detroit.
- CANADA: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/tech-millionaire-builds-99-unit-tiny-house-neighborhood-for-homeless-canadians/ar-AA1Bg5zx
- Tiny Homes TV — Many locations. https://www.milaneseremodeling.com/tiny-house-nation-teenager-mark-milanese/
- GEORGIA: https://dcstructures.com/blog/does-alternative-housing-suit-your-lifestyle/
- Ten U.S. Tiny Homes Project Villages. https://www.ncfgiving.com/stories/10-tiny-house-villages-for-the-homeless-across-the-u-s/
- https://www.pod-design.com/news/tiny-house-communities-in-2024-everything-you-need-to-know — MANY locations, including Colorado, California, Michigan, many others. Good explanations of many types, functions.
- Michigan counties that appear already friendly to Tiny Home building: https://www.pod-design.com/news/tiny-house-communities-in-2024-everything-you-need-to-know
- Designs for small spaces: kitchens, office spaces / desks, portable/movable furniture that can be on wheels, or fold open/closed. <add links>
- Zero Energy Homes (Net Zero Energy, and Zero Energy Ready Homes)
- U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Zero Energy Ready Home Program, ZERH Education Hub [Web page, retrieved June 2024], https://www.energy.gov/eere/buildings/zerh-education-hub
REFERENCES
[edit | edit source]- This Old House Radio Hour. 2026. Building Tomorrow: A Special Look at the Future of Housing [Radio program], available at: https://www.thisoldhouse.com/radiohour Topics include:
- A massive prefab factory where homes are built like cars on an assembly line.
- A disaster research campus where engineers crash-test houses against hurricanes, hail, and wildfire.
- A cutting-edge microfactory using software and small factories to build homes faster, locally, and at scale.
- Touring a pioneering cross-laminated timber home built as a living case study in low-carbon construction.
- How a 100-year-old house is transformed into a net-zero, future-ready home.
- A tiny-house community redefining retirement, aging, and what “home” really means.
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