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Affordable Housing Exhibition Goes on Tour

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Well-designed, affordable homes can create assets for
low- to moderate-income residents and value for the
communities in which they are built. A new traveling
exhibition, "Affordable Housing: Designing an American
Asset," shows homes that are energy efficient, durable,
economical to maintain, and aesthetically appealing.
Models, photographs, drawings, and a video showcase
affordable homes in 18 developments from urban and rural
neighborhoods across the United States. A virtual online
tour is available at
http://www.nbm.org/Exhibits/online/affordable_housing/ah_index.html.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
helped finance the development and nationwide tour of
this exhibition, which demonstrates approaches to
addressing the urgent need to design and build affordable
housing in America.  Among the criteria for inclusion of
a project was a requirement that at least 20 percent of
the units must be available to families making less than
50 percent of the area median income.

The exhibit is at the University of Pennsylvania's
Division of Facilities and Real Estate Services Office in
Philadelphia until May 27, 2005. See details about the
exhibit at
http://www.fanniemaefoundation.org/news/ah_traveling_expo.shtml.

After the exhibit leaves Philadelphia, it will travel to
four other cities: Seattle, Washington, Museum of History
and Industry, July 1-August 27, 2005; Hartford,
Connecticut, The Lyceum Partnership for Strong
Communities, September 1-October 16, 2005; Atlanta,
Georgia, Museum of Design, January 21-March 19, 2006; and
Chicago, Illinois: I Space, August 4-20, 2006.

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