WIKIHOUSE WikiHouse is an effort to democratize home design and construction by allowing “anyone to design, download, and ‘print’ CNC-milled houses and components.”...

Vinnie Rotondaro and Maura Ewing of Narratively take an in-depth look at a fast-changing Brooklyn neighborhood and the actors and strategies behind its transformation.

ADAPT NYC WINNER ANNOUNCED On Tuesday, Mayor Bloomberg announced the winners of adAPT NYC, a pilot program to develop “a new...

Making Room: New Models for Housing New Yorkers opens this week at at the Museum of the City of New York and will run from January 23rd through September 15th. Two public programs related to this exhibition, on January 24th and February 7th, will be of particular interest to Omnibus readers.

In 1987, the League launched a design study to examine the potential of small-scale infill housing to contribute to the city’s affordable housing portfolio. We look back at what was proposed, and what was built instead.

SEWARD PARK RFP RELEASED This past Wednesday, 45 years after being cleared in the name of urban renewal, six acres...

The Omnibus team will be taking a short break for the next couple of weeks to gear up for 2013....

Last Monday night, I had the opportunity to attend the premiere performance of Stuyvesant Town: This is Your Home, an...

Andy Reicher shares the history of UHAB, chronicling its evolution through 40 years of helping renters become owners.

KEEPING CO-OP CITY AFFORDABLE This week, Governor Cuomo, Mayor Bloomberg and US HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan announced a $621.5 million...