ASU at the Downtown Phoenix campus
Through research, education, advocacy and design innovation, the ASU Stardust Center for Affordable Homes and the Family supports organizations, neighborhoods and professionals in their efforts to create quality, affordable homes and sustainable communities.
Identifying the need to become socially embedded within the surrounding community, ASU launched the Stardust Center for Affordable Homes and the Family. The Stardust Center focuses on affordable/workforce homes and family success as a single issue. From this perspective, a home is a means to family success and neighborhood stability, a key component for social and economical development in the region.
The Stardust Center for Affordable Homes and the Family is an academic research unit within ASU, focusing on establishing the social and economic foundation for and effects of permanent, affordable homes for working families, studying the impacts of family services on family and neighborhood stability and success, and meeting the technological and architectural challenges of sustainable homes for working families.
The center itself works with governmental, nonprofit, for-profit and other academic institutions involved in encouraging affordable ownership of a permanent home and providing family support services. Arizona State University manages the center through the Office of the President, allowing coordination of ASU’s many academic and other resources.
