Friday, October 3

7:30 am Registration begins

8:00 am - 9:30 am ACD Board Meeting (open to all attendees)

9:30 am - 10:00 am Break

10:00 am - 10:30 am Opening Remarks

10:30 am - 12:00 pm Participant Lead Topic Discussions

Calculating and Advocating for Housing Affordability in London

Peter Ambrose, Health and Social Policy Research Centre, Brighton University, England

Common Building Envelope Problems in Affordable Housing

Ross Clements, Forensic Architect, South Carolina

Successes, Challenges and Changes in Community Design Centers

12:00 pm - 1:30 pm Lunch

NEA Grants and Why Designers Should Apply

Maurice Cox, Director of Design, National Endowment for the Arts

1:30 pm - 2:45 pm Participant Lead Topic Discussions

Revitalizing Aging Residential Homes in Urban Neighborhoods Neil Chapagain, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Larry Kilmer, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Pumice-Crete: Durable, Comfortable, Affordable

Lloyd Goding, Chemist, New Mexico

The AIA Affordable Housing Network

Sherry Ahrentzen, Stardust Center for Affordable Homes & the Family, Arizona State University

Casius Pealer, General Counsel, District of Columbia Housing Authority

2:45 pm - 3:15 pm Break

3:15 pm - 4:15 pm Participant Lead Topic Discussions

Live Work Play Learn: Industrial Style

David Driskill, Associate Dean for External Programs, Texas Tech University

Civic Design: Leadership, Education and Engagement

Anne-Marie Lubenau, Community Design Center of Pittsburg

Four Accessibility Laws Explained

Mark Mazz, AIA, Hyattsville, Maryland

4:15 pm - 5:45 pm HOPE VI Reauthorization and Implications

Casius Pealer, General Counsel, District of Columbia Housing Authority

Anita Sinha, Staff Attorney, The Advancement Project, Washington, DC

Participants will discuss history and funding for HOPE VI over past 15 years, criticisms and improvements. Participants will analyze and compare Senate and House reauthorizations bills and discuss current issues, the right return, one-for-one replacement and new green requirements.

5:45 pm - 6:00 pm Closing Remarks

6:00 pm - 9:00 pm Reception at AIA Arizona

Exhibit awards

Saturday, October 4

7:00 am Registration opens

8:00 am - 8:30 am Breakfast

8:30 am - 10:00 am Mixed Income Housing

Lynne Manzo, Landscape Architecture Dept., University of Washington

Michael Pyatok, Pyatok Associates, Oakland / College of Architecture, University of Washington

Kurt Creager, Stardust Center for Affordable Homes & the Family, ASU, Phoenix / Urbanist Solutions

When HOPE VI began in the 1990s, mixed-income development was touted as a prime mechanism for increasing quality of life and social integration of low-income residents and revitalizing and rebuilding distressed neighborhoods. With numerous mixed-income developments – HOPE VI as well as others in the housing market -- populating our cities, we can now ask whether our expectations have been met, for whom, and what factors bring about success. In addressing this question, the panelists will present and reflect on their experiences and research pertaining to mixed-income housing in different parts of the country. They will also offer ideas for improving our efforts in trying to achieve a just distribution of affordable housing.

10:00 am - 10:15 am Break

10:15 am - 12:15 pm Design Advocacy

Bill Roschen, Roschen Van Cleve Architects, Los Angeles

Beth Miller, Community Design Collaborative, Philadelphia

Roberta Feldman, City Design Center, University of Illinois, Chicago

Architects, planners, community organizers and others involved in affordable housing strive to improve people’s quality of life through good design. But often in light of competing priorities, tight budgets and public resistance, we are often challenged to answer: how design matters. The speakers on this panel all had inspiring successes advocating for better quality design in affordable housing. They will describe their successes, their strategies, and thoughts about what they were able to achieve and how they anticipate achieving more.

12:15 pm - 1:15 pm Lunch

1:15 pm - 3:30 pm Sustainability in Affordable Housing

Daniel Glenn, Stardust Center for Affordable Homes and the Family, Arizona State U., Phoenix

Mary Hardin, Drachman Institute, University of Arizona, Tucson

Steven Moore, Center for Sustainable Design, University of Texas, Austin

While sustainable design has made inroads in many new building practices, the feasibility of building sustainably and affordably remains an enigma for many. Considering the “three legs of sustainability” – environmental, social/cultural, and economic – the speakers in this panel give concrete examples of practices and developments for providing affordable and sustainable homes and communities.

3:30 pm - 3:45 pm Break

3:45 pm - 5:15 pm Inclusive Affordable Housing

Roger Borgenicht, ASSIST, Salt Lake City

Marilyn Crandall, Department of Justice, Washington, DC

Mike Kolejka, Orcutt-Winslow Architects, Phoenix

As the country becomes more economically, socially, and culturally diverse, new ways for building housing to address this diversity has fostered new ideas and commitment as well as confusion and resentment. Universal design and inclusive design are approaches to design that seek to ensure that mainstream products and environments are accessible to the largest number of people. Yet there still remain questions about the feasibility and appropriateness of inclusive design, in light of special needs, costs, and federal regulations. The members of this panel will present strategies for evaluating the effectiveness of design strategies that strive towards being inclusive vs. targeted, and for addressing Fair Housing regulations.

5:15 pm Closing Remarks

Sunday, October 5

9:00 am - 12:00 pm Tours

Henson Village

McCormack Baron Salazar and the City of Phoenix collaborated together to build the Matthew Henson HOPE VI community, a mixed- income and housing revitalization project located in the Phoenix’s Central City South Neighborhood. The City of Phoenix received a $35 Million HUD HOPE VI grant in 2001 to rebuild the severely distressed housing project originally constructed in the early 1940’s. The community is comprised of 370 affordable and 83 market-rate rental apartments, a senior living facility, Vernell Coleman Youth Center, Henson Park, and Emmett McLoughlin Community Training and Education Center. The community also used multiple “green” strategies, from low-E glass to carpet made from recycled coke bottles, during its renovation.

South Ranch

In conjunction with Habitat for Humanity and other partners, a 40-acre, 195 single-family home community located in South Phoenix was built in 2002. Unique neighborhood features include narrower streets, personalized and xeriscaped front yards, a large park with shade trees and play area for children, and front porches that enhance neighborhood interaction. In addition, the community center (Stardust House) consists of two adjoining houses that offer programs to educate, mentor, and support families toward self-sufficiency. The community center partners with many agencies and nonprofits to provide programs, including Head Start, after-school care, mentoring, college preparation, and classes in creative art/music, English as a Second Language, and financial literacy.

Guadalupe House

The Guadalupe House was designed by the ASU Stardust Center as a demonstration home for affordability and sustainability in a collaborative workshop process with residents and city officials of the town of Guadalupe, a small Yaqui and Mexican-American community in metro Phoenix area. The project provided a new home for the Bejarano family, whose dilapidated residence was demolished and rebuilt on the original slab. The home accommodates a multigenerational household and allows rooftop expansion for the future. The traditional courtyard design creates an outdoor room for family gatherings and is part of an architectural strategy to minimize energy use through the use of passive cooling, cross-ventilation and daylight; a 2.5kW photovoltaic system to further reduce energy use; and is built with Navajo FlexCrete and a structural insulated panel roof coated with a non-toxic, reflective coating to provide a desert-responsive enclosure. The project was built in partnership with Guadalupe YouthBuild and a construction team led by the Stardust Center that included YouthBuild and ASU students, Habitat for Humanity, Hoopa Valley Tribal Community Conservation Corp and Phoenix Job Corps.

La Cascada II Senior Apartment Community

Located near the base of North Mountain Preserve, this thirty-six unit, one-bedroom apartment community is designed to provide affordable living for seniors 55 and older. The community is conveniently located near John C. Lincoln hospital, Sunnyslope Senior Center, grocery shopping, shopping centers and the bus line. The apartments feature handicapped accessible bathrooms and lowered kitchen counters, emergency light systems and call alarms, security entry systems, whirlpools, community rooms, gardening, and game rooms. The community was awarded the 2003 Best of Seniors Housing Design Award for Affordable Senior Apartments, and was one of the 18 residential developments selected for the National Building Museum’s Affordable Housing: Designing an American Asset exhibition.