The Center for Innovation in Affordable Housing Design is a partnership between Penn Design and the Peoples Emergency Center Community Development Corporation (PECCDC). Together, the partnership will offer tomorrow's planners and architects the opportunity for first hand experience in design and community development process while helping the West Powelton community served by PECCDC accomplish sustained and equitable development.
 
The Center for Innovation in Affordable Housing is funded by a Community Outreach Partnership Center (COPC) futures grant from the Office of University Partnerships of the US Department of Housing and Urban Development. 
 
This newsletter is directed toward students, educators, affordable housing developers, designers and anyone with an interest in affordable housing. There are two components to the newsletter.  We will have news from the ongoing COPC Future's programs, including our own work in West Philadelphia. Secondly, the newsletter will include articles that we feel are pertinent to our audience.  These articles are pulled from several sources, and the sources are listed with each article.  We encourage you to look at these other newsletters and the additional information hosted on their home sites. This month's newsletter is largely pulled from the newsletters of ArchNewsNow, KnowledgePlex, and Planetizen.
 
If you know of other sources to add to the digest, have comments on the format, or have comments on the project please feel free to contact us at copc@design.upenn.edu Also feel free to pass this newsletter along to anyone who might find it interesting.  We look forward to any comments you have.

The Editors