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Affordable Housing

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.

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.

The Paradox at the Heart of the Fires

When it comes to providing safe and affordable housing, why does the public sector receive so little funding and so much scrutiny, while the private sector gets ample incentives with minimal accountability?

Migrating Forms

Immigrant architects and builders transformed New York's working-class housing, once a symbol of despair, into a stock of dignified dwellings — their aspirations etched into the ornamented exteriors of the city’s iconic tenements.

Dispatches

What People Need and What the Stock Provides

Sarah Watson of the Citizens Housing and Planning Council talks about crafting policy at the intersection of public health and private home, and the urgency to build and adapt dwellings that reflect how New Yorkers live — alone or together.