Affordable Housing 'Boom' In Illinois

Posted by: Edmelynne Villanueva
Thanks to: Payton Chung

7 May 2002 - 2:00pm

Michael Suhadolnik fills a void by building low-cost, energy effiencient housing with New Urbanism style.

"[Mr. Suhadolnik] acquired 190 acres adjacent to Northern Illinois University in DeKalb and is proposing a 900-unit subdivision, called Savannah Green, with houses priced as low as $110,000."

Full Story: 'Green' Downstate homebuilder inching closer to Chicago

Source: Crain's Chicago Business, May 7, 2002

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New Suburbanism is not a new design paradigm that seeks to compete with or discredit principles of New Urbanism. Instead, our perspective represents a broad-based attempt to find the best, most practical ways to develop and redevelop suburban communities.

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Read the full article, written by Joel Kotkin.