How can you ensure low-income populations benefit from retrofitting and adaptive reuse projects?

Before starting the project, I fully identify its context, fully understand the needs of the low-income community. I calculate the time, labor required and the cost of completing the project. At this stage, I find a solution in this field, for example, I use the materials available in the field in the form of recycling, and restore the repairable and rehabilitated devices and components. and the human forces of this region to cooperate and advance the project to improve the conditions

A project may have many goals. Some are straightforward, but two need special forethought: 1) Make sure the pro forma works. Taking on any project without understanding the full financial implications for the owner, and how to help the owner make good decisions, can cause havoc. Architects need to operate as though the money was theirs, and be sure to help the owner understand how to cash flow the project for success. 2) Often, funding for those most in need is passed over for flashy projects. We will all benefit if we attach funding for these projects to public funding for sports franchises or DOT projects. Let's stop rubber-stamping stadium and road widening projects until the most basic needs are taken care of, first.

Many simply assume that drawings are the fundamental reason for using tech in architecture designs. No. The problem is way deeper: There has to be clear linguistic structures in architects data. Do scientists staring at cave walls where some mysterious equations are drawn pictorially? No. It is because scientists sat together and agreed on the representation of their formulae and symbols; they can collaborate. So tech really has to be built on clear linguistic structures. Unfortunately, the clamour for BIM is so overpowering: People are simply seeking visual analogues of the built environment of the rich/entitled: beams, columns, walls, etc. Nobody really cares about modelling a poor person's house made of plastic tarpaulins as a roof!

I think this is a red herring. We certainly want engagement and wish for participants, but I disagree it is a "key challenge." Folks need need help. Now. "Creating platforms for dialogue, consultation, feedback, and collaboration." sounds nice, but we already know the macro issues: Shelter, food, safety. And then access to recovery, healthcare, and job training. Addressing these things resolves most issues. And it needs to be done faster. We need funding that supports humanity. In a humane way. We need to stop talking about it, and just do it.

Thank you for your proactive focal point. Milwaukee has a MacCanon Brown Homeless Sanctuary that needs support that helps the Northern Milwaukee Neighborhood Community of West Center Street, Zip Code 53206. There is a continuing of healthcare services that is down-sizing in the North Milwaukee Area for adults and children. Let’s help these Non-Profit Organizations in there areas expand those healthcare services, in a real and meaningful way to help improve their lives and bring them back as supporters in the economics of their community. Thank you all who support MacCanon Brown Homeless Sanctuary, 2461 W. Center Street, Milwaukee, WI 53206.

Building a community takes an intentional approach to making decisions in the best interest of the community. Setting project goals is important. As is knowing how to measure the goals, and monitoring the goals consistently. How do we design for, and monitor "engagement" or "social improvement" or "increased opportunity" in a meaningful way? Financial and recovery outcomes are easy to measure. The rest are difficult. We have lots of work ahead to identify how to measure them, identify how to provide for them within the community, and then monitor those measures and stand ready to make changes when goals are missed.

There is a big irony in the state of architectural practice today: Those who want the intelligence and knowledge of architects cannot afford the costs of the field, and those who really don't care about what architects do or what architecture really is; are the ones who employ architects! If one has to go beyond lip-service towards the poor, our field of architecture has to completely revamp its knowledge base from the ground up. I once saw a pavement dweller sweeping her portion of the pavement. So she saw her home there. Everyone else saw a pavement there and happily intruded into her space. Imagine designing for that poor lady! We architects and theoreticians have to get out of our snotty coffee-table magazines and be empathetic.