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Natural Neighborhood Development Coalition
NNDC
Mission, Goal, Purpose
Our mission is to improve the quality of life for all by providing opportunities for sustainable, affordable housing with sweat equity, participatory building and education in the revival of time proven, sustainable building techniques.
The NNDC is spearheading the first campaign for whole neighborhoods to be designed and eligible for federal grants in Sustainability, Affordable Housing and Education allowing new homeowners the ability to learn and help build under Contract/Mentorship of professional Natural Builders and architects earning sweat equity.
Naturally Built Neighborhoods use holistic approaches to sustainable development. They are Permaculturally Master Planned communities with appropriately sized custom bungalow homes with varied setbacks interspersed with walkable gardens and sidewalks through food forests responding to natural site variations and preserving trees. No clearing. Only sensitive harvesting of all vegetation, private outdoor spaces integrated into the architecture of the homes.
Natural Homes combine comprehensive systems approaches innovatively into the building technology for passive designs featuring the revival of traditional efficient features such as convection chimneys for passive cooling, trombe walls, thermal mass earthen construction and NO VOC plasters, paints and finishes.
NNDC strives to offer a development structure that provides a balance of responsible social, economical and environmental solutions to the lack of affordable, healthy housing and the revival of time proven but forgotten exemplary efficient building skills.
Housing-Smarts class with the City of Austin, Neighborhood Housing and Community Development
