The unhoused can teach a masterclass on survival — and that we are all just one stroke of bad luck away from the same fate.
Affordable Housing
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Rezoning Plan Will Destroy What Made Soho an Artists’ Neighborhood
Will New York wake up one day and discover that speculation has cannibalized its creative industries, which underpinned the desirability of the real estate itself?
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LA Forces Unhoused Residents From Echo Park, Leaving Behind Community Art Project and Garden
City councilman Mitch O’Farrell abruptly closed the park for renovations, displacing residents with little notice.
Posted inFilm
On Vivarium and the Identity Crises Subverting the Modern Home Invasion Movie
The contemporary home invasion genre might seem pessimistic about personal action, but it reflects growing frustration with a system geared toward the privileged 1%.
Posted inArt
An Affordable Housing Initiative Is Geared Towards Santa Fe’s Creative Community
“There’s a bigger piece of what we’re trying to do, which is thinking, on a macro level, about Santa Fe’s identity as an art town,” said Daniel Werwath, who is developing the Siler Yard project.
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A Vision for Sustainable Housing and Design in Los Angeles
The architecture firm Brooks + Scarpa makes the case for greater building density and more sustainable design practices to combat the region’s acute housing shortage.
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Kanye West Helped Create These Designs for Prison Chic Prefab Concrete Houses
After music and fashion, Kim Kardashian’s husband is trying his hand at architecture via his new firm, YEEZY Home.
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A 3D Printed House with Humanitarian Ambitions and a $10,000 Price Tag
Austin-based startup ICON revealed an extremely ambitious plan to build a community of 3D-printed houses in El Salvador. (And, hopefully later, in space.)
Posted inArt
An Archive on Homelessness and the Housing Crisis Brought to Life
Gentrification and related issues of rising rents, the paucity of affordable housing, and the astronomical gap between the wealthy and the poor have been appearing in public discourse at an increasing rate, in exhibitions, in public art projects, in organized protests.
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The Saga of Affordable Housing, from the Historical to the Personal
This is not just an informative and enlightening show; it’s also an important one, one that gets us to look at what, for some of us, is necessary to live in this particular time and place.