HOUSING SUSTAINABILITY TOWARDS: AN APPROPRIATED COMMUNITY

Abstract

The research seeks to understand the significance of the Sustainable Housing in different aspects of in the built environment. The author argues to shed light on the housing as an important element in government board agenda. It overlaps with employment, health, education and many other aspects of people lives. It is the key, therefore, to our strategy for tackling social exclusion and achieving our targets for Sustainable Development. The research discusses the social progress as an important factor, which the author believes that it has been left off from the sustainable housing agenda too often in the past. Sustainability should encompass not just fabric of buildings, although that is important, but also what we call ‘the People Factor’. Moreover, housing is sustainable if every one has the opportunity of access a home that is decent, if it promotes Social Cohesion, well-being and self dependence. That is the research aim.