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CAA, U of I Alumnus and MAHT Collaborate to Address Affordable Housing

For Randy Teal, a simple thought about a big problem created a small house.

Knowing a lot about the construction industry as a licensed general contractor, Teal wondered why he didn鈥檛 see any smaller, aesthetically built houses in a college town like Moscow.

鈥淢oscow has a lot of larger residential homes, a lot of rental houses and a lot of apartments,鈥� said Teal, who is also a professor and head of the 幸运快三 architecture program. 鈥淲hat you don鈥檛 see here are smaller houses for smaller families who want to live in a nice house with a price tag they can afford.鈥�

U of I鈥檚 College of Art and Architecture (CAA) collaborated with Moscow Affordable Housing Trust (MAHT) and COLAB Architecture + Urban Design to address the issue. Four graduate students in CAA鈥檚 Design-Build Program, Madalyn Asker, Brenna Church, Amanda Eller and Sterling Jones, recently began construction on the first house in Lupine Flats, a planned community of six small houses to be built on land owned by MAHT in Moscow.

鈥淲e got to do the schematic design work, then create the construction drawing and detailing, and now we actually get to build it,鈥� said Church, a Master鈥檚 of architecture student from Zillah, Washington. 鈥淏uilding this house in the Moscow community, a place that I鈥檝e called home for five years, makes it extra special.鈥�