Well-designed housing is not just about appearances. It’s about building better places to live.
We’re here to provide the tools you need to shape the next generation of affordable housing.
Get started fast! Quick, easy-to-use documents for writing design briefs and RFPs, crafting meeting agendas, and creating surveys.
Take a deeper dive: resources to reconsider your pre-development process, from guides to improve RFPs and create design guidelines, to ideas for participatory process.
Focus your efforts: tools to meet your impact goals – such as health, aging, and community building.
Learn from others: see how your peers have achieved more with thoughtful design.
Learn about the Rose Fellowship, which partners emerging architectural designers and artists with community development organizations.
Find out about our annual convening of leading designers and developers to charrette individual projects.
Many Thanks
We gratefully acknowledge the support of our philanthropic partners: the Barr Foundation, The Kendeda Fund, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Surdna Foundation in developing the Design Matters toolkit.
