Four years ago, in August 2001, an article appeared in the Washington Post highlighting a program in which developers and Fairfax County, Virginia officials worked together to create a “Great House” – multifamily housing constructed to be both architecturally harmonious with other homes in the surrounding single-family neighborhood, and to comply with the county’s affordable housing and density bonus program.
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Mary Ann Walsh hates to see a good idea go to waste. When she saw that the owner of a rundown motel on Cape Cod had abandoned plans to convert the property into affordable housing, she decided to do something about it.
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