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Building healthy, affordable housing in North Carolina.
When most people hear the words affordable housing, they picture old-style urban public housing with apartments stacked end-to-end, replete with graffiti and shadylooking characters, unkempt and marked by a general malaise. Nothing seems healthy about it. But today’s affordable housing is different. Successful projects are well-designed, built to a reasonable scale, and have landscaping and ame...
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عنوان ژورنال: Scandinavian Journal of Public Health
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1403-4948,1651-1905
DOI: 10.1177/1403494811399168