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Affordable Housing

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.

Romantic Urbanism

Full House

Stories of making home and community care from co-ops and lofts to adjoined brick houses and wood paneled basements

More Than Skin Deep

Renovated facades provide a window into existential questions for the future of New York City’s public housing.

Shelf Life

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.

Circulation Desk

What Colors Are the Crabgrass?

New books chronicle US suburbs' divergence from their mythical origin scenes of verdant lawns and white picket fences — and detail how social struggles have always been part of their story.

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.

New City Critics

Meet the 2024-2025 New City Critics Fellows

New City Critics fellows — architects, journalists, artists, a city planner and a rapper among them — will be training a critical gaze on New York City over the next nine months.

New City Critics

Call for Applications: New City Critics 2024

Building Out of a Tight Spot

An architect faces New York City's housing crisis and climate crisis, one building at a time.

Transit Oriented

New construction along elevated train lines brings an unprecedented degree of intimacy between private homes and workplaces and passengers in a 24-hour transit system.