Housing

Facial recognition. Tenant screening platforms. Biometric databases. A new set of digital products seeks to disrupt the real estate industry. But these technologies are fast becoming weaponized against a familiar target of housing discrimination: working-class tenants of color.

For more than half a century, real estate data has played a crucial role in struggles against housing discrimination and dispossession. But what information is needed now in the face of changing forms of speculation?

An indicator species in vinyl and metal, the streetside lockbox signals the rise of a short-term city.

When it comes to building schools, a little-known entity with radical roots has had an outsize effect on the city’s skyline. How can the Educational Construction Fund adapt an experimental ethos to changing times?

Questions of ownership, affordability, and political representation converge in current struggles over rent regulation.

Residents recall a decade of upheaval in the East New York Oral History Project.

In Sheepshead Bay, designing for resilience at a scale somewhere between the city and the single-family house.

50 years after the passage of a landmark law, how will New York City assess the fairness of its housing?

Whither housing? Ask the houses. In four recent books, home is where the histories of housing policy and politics makes themselves known.

Nearly six years after Sandy flooded basements and uprooted trees, Red Hook Houses is still in recovery. But designers from KPF and OLIN see a future brighter than survival, when infrastructure combines with art and the landscape rises above the waterline.