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Public Housing
This Is a Rehearsal
With democratic institutions and processes at a nadir, a playwright considers the public meeting's mise-en-scene. How might artists help perform power when we are out of practice?
Home Valuation
New stories from Mitchell-Lama co-ops and the LA Tenants Union narrate the housing crisis as a struggle for control, and over the true meaning of a home.
More Than Skin Deep
Renovated facades provide a window into existential questions for the future of New York City’s public housing.
The Inside Story
Images of public housing interiors decorated with love and care preserve family memories and public history, and document style as an act of resistance.
News from Home
Reported from the imaginations of those on the front lines of New York City's housing struggles, a newspaper from the future brings tidings of homes for all.
An Electrician
There is no shortage of work for a member of IBEW Local 3: shoring up building systems to withstand flooding and preparing for an electrification boom.
East Harlem Gets Ready
For high school students in the Climate Resilience Leadership Lab, emergency preparedness means mobilizing the neighborhood.
Do You Remember How It Was?
Residents recall a decade of upheaval in the East New York Oral History Project.
Our Fair City
50 years after the passage of a landmark law, how will New York City assess the fairness of its housing?
If These Walls Could Talk
Whither housing? Ask the houses. In four recent books, home is where the histories of housing policy and politics makes themselves known.