Where Homework Means Building Affordable Housing
Each year, beginning in the fall, a group of third-year architecture
students from Auburn University take up residence in a small rural
Alabama town to begin building a house. In the winter, when a new
semester begins, they are replaced at the Newbern, Alabama, project site
by another cohort of 16 students who finish up the job and prepare the
house for its new occupants. The 20K Home Project began 13 years ago as a
challenge to architecture students at Auburn to build a $20,000 house,
with $12,000 in material and $8,000 for labor. The idea was to create
"the perfect house" for needy families in rural areas where dwellings
are often substandard and where affordable building can be a logistical
challenge.
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