Latest Past Events

2:00pm – Housing Solutions Across the Edge

Well before the current housing crisis, creative developers and grassroots communities were busy advancing a broad movement. Largely inspired to create housing, also moved to establish a profound sense of place, this movement has become so broad and deep that no single person or group can say that know most of what is going on.…

2:00pm – Climate Change, IAQ and Energy Efficiency

Climate change, wildfires, excessive heat and a life-threatening pandemic - life as we have known it, no longer exists. Many people from all walks of life and who live in existing housing can no longer escape to their 'castle'. What can be done to provide healthy housing with clean, cool and affordable indoor air to…

12:00pm – Blowing the Lid Off Affordable Net Zero Housing

The C Street Co-op packs a punch: Affordable Housing at 60% AMI? Check. Affordable homeownership? Check. Permanently affordable homeownership? Check. Net Zero Energy? Neighborhood walkability? And all this with about 10% of the subsidy required by typical affordable housing apartment buildings? Check, check, and check. Recently completed in Springfield, Oregon, the C Street Co-op has…