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Publication Review

Title: Accessing Housing Durability
Author: HUD, 2001
File: Free Research Study, PDF, 1.18 MB, 48 pages
Audience: Written for builders, designers and building researchers interested in building durability.

Review
A research study exploring durability issues for housing. Compares 1970's to 1990's housing..

Issues covered include:

• introduction
• methodology
• results
• site assessment
• sample housing characteristics
• condition assessment
• scoring
• causal relationship
• photographic record'
• homeowner survey
• evaluation of the methodology
• summary and conclusions
• recommendations

Graphics include:

• graphs of durability issues
• photos of durability issues