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  EHDA Merit Award: Killingsworth Station

  Portland, Ore., infill project for both market-rate and low-income buyers promotes low-income affordable housing along light-rail line.

   
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  EHDA Grand Award: South Hills Retirement Residence

  After sitting vacant for 35 years, the old South Hills High School has been transformed into energy-efficient seniors housing.

   
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  EHDA Merit Award: Salishan - Sal 7

  Phase seven of Tacoma Housing Authority's Salishan redevelopment achieves LEED-Platinum.

   
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  EHDA Merit Award: Main Street Village Apartments

  This transit-oriented development in Fremont, Calif., provides energy-efficient housing for low-income residents.

   
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  rosa gardens, palm springs, calif.

  A LEED-Gold affordable housing community suits its hot, dry environment.

   
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  West Hollywood Housing, West Hollywood, Calif.

  West Hollywood Housing creates a supportive environment for special-needs residents.

   
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  downtime on the farm

  Imagine a cluster of 30 or so diminutive homes set on the edge of a large field, their compact rectangles topped with tilted roofs and punctuated with bright apple-green or ochre siding. This new crop of farmworker housing, designed by the Seattle firm Mi

   
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  spec lightly

  After graduating from architecture school, John Smith cast off for Germany to build prototype houses from discarded shipping containers. Now back on native soil in Houston and toiling for a commercial firm, Smith has a similar goal of creating compact, yet nicely detailed housing stateside.