affordable housing
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Seema Agnani’s work with South Asian immigrants on housing needs charts a course for legalizing basement apartments to create affordable housing.
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Sociologist Dalton Conley takes us on a walk through the public housing complexes where he grew up, reflecting on the economics of housing policy and the limits of design.
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The Chicago Housing Authority has slowly been tearing down its Cabrini-Green public housing project, and as of yesterday another one of the buildings is gone. Ryan Flynn has been documenting the transformation of the site for the past few years, and has put together a time-lapse video of the demolition.
Cabrini-Green once housed…
As you've probably heard by now, a state appeals court has barred the use of eminent domain for parts of a 17 acre site intended for development by Columbia University, ruling the condemnation unconstitutional. This on the heels of last week's more developer-friendly rulings for Atlantic Yards and…
12 04 09 • by Urban Omnibus • affordable housing, architecture, bronx, city government, eminent domain, housing, manhattan, roundup
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This symposium is part of the Citizen’s Housing & Planning Council’s broad-based investigation of housing and space standards in New York City. Read, watch, listen and respond.
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This week we listened to some new strategies to involve community stakeholders in the design of public spaces, strategies tested in the parks of Manhattan's Chinatown and the Lower East Side. Meanwhile, across the country in LA's Chinatown, urban planner James Rojas has assembled an interactive city model from legos, blocks and…
07 31 09 • by Urban Omnibus • affordable housing, atlantic yards, city government, coney island, film, news, public space, rezoning, roundup, to do
This Thursday, the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP) is presenting another installment of their excellent People and Buildings series of live talk shows. This one will shed light on the fascinating back-story of the partnership, leadership, reverendship and, er, 'architectship' that has, to date,
07 21 09 • by Cassim Shepard • affordable housing, architectural league, Center for Urban Pedagogy, east new york, to do
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Nothing screams "Summertime!" like the adjourning of an Albany legislative session. This time, State Senators left more than just the usual state politics soap opera in limbo…
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Glen Cummings shares the process of creating the Predatory Equity Survival Guide.
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In this piece, Holly Leicht, Deputy Commissioner of Development at HPD, explains the recent history of the city's involvement in East New York.
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