America is facing a housing crisis, primarily in our rural regions. This crisis, in part, can be attributed to two main issues, affordability and sustainability. Americans are overburdened by overwhelming costs of housing. The majority of the houses in rural towns were built before 1929. North Central Kansas and Northwest Kansas need new, affordable homes,
Rural architecture and housing is a difficult and multifaceted problem that doesn’t operate on the same financial models as urban housing. Through our analysis, we have learned that for rural housing to be successful, wages will have to increase in the region so that people can afford to pay for newer homes or rural housing
Good architecture has value. Rural areas demonstrate that despite sometimes limited exposure to architecturally designed buildings, the communities are architecturally literate, they decipher and understand architectural cues. Much like urban areas, rural communities also appreciate the benefits and values that architecturally designed buildings can provide. A sense of rural architecture, one of quality built design