Beginning in late 2012, the group has brought together organizers, educators, and cultural workers living and working in various communities throughout Los Angeles. School of Echoes is a space for critical reflection on the conditions in…
On the first of this month, 20 blocks from a “May Day Anti-Fascist Karaoke and Barbecue” just then coalescing around New Orleans’ soon-to-be-removed monument to Jefferson Davis, a group of artists and affordable housing advocates took…
For the first decade of the 21st century, the industrial wasteland between Berlin’s Ostbahnhof station and the river Spree was earmarked for a huge urban regeneration project – one that would show that the German capital…
Although the community land trust, or CLT, is still a minority animal in Australia it figures more strongly in, for instance, the US, where reclaim-the-city movements have had more impetus, for longer. On this scenario, a…
The first four episodes, available to view now, look at four different projects across the country, which each communicate a different facet of density done well, and include Christie Walk in Adelaide, The Commons in Melbourne,…
The Waterloo Public Housing Action Group (WPHAG) is determined to see the Waterloo Estate remain in public hands. At a REDWatch meeting on February 2, Richard Weeks of WPHAG reaffirmed this prerogative and the desire for…
Floating Worlds comprises a series of lectures and live-conducted interviews centering oriented around potential roles for architecture in the contemporary neoliberal political economy, with a focus on issues pertaining to gender and identity. In a sense,…
“#WeLiveHere2017 began with the belief that putting a human face to public housing is vital to encourage compassion, action, and resistance to the rapid urban change in Waterloo, Sydney. Late last year this project took on…
Their award-winning The Commons development in Brunswick – with its green power, rooftop communal garden, car-share scheme and its lack of parking (which collectively add up to an eight-star energy rating) – demonstrated what was possible…
The astounding finding that home-owning adults will soon be in the minority marks an important tipping point and demands a change to prevailing attitudes about renters and landlords. Tags: dripfeed_critical_housing
Burkina Faso is by no means an area frequented by tourists, but at the base of a hill overlooking the surrounding sun-drenched West African savannah lies an extraordinary village, a circular 1.2 hectare complex of intricately…
For artist/mother/academic/activist Lena Simic, art-activism and parenting are inextricably linked. She and her family (partner Gary and children Sid, Neal, Gabriel and James) make up the artist initiative The Institute for the Art and Practice of…
The ‘golden age’ of public housing is over and Australia is facing a significant housing affordability crisis. As social housing stock dwindles and the need for affordable housing expands policy makers and planners are increasingly looking…
Affordable housing sometimes has a bad reputation: The name often conjures crumbling public towers or far-away pre-fab units built by private developers. But there’s another kind of affordable housing, built with tax credits and city loans,…
The council is proposing to build on the mix of breweries, music venues and creative spaces that have already sprung up where – thanks to factors like flooding and the flight path – residential development has…
“The NYC Real Estate Investment Cooperative (NYC REIC) is a group of over 300 New Yorkers who are pooling their money and power to secure space for community, small business, and cultural use in NYC. Consistent…
Houses are intimate spaces, a shelter where the self is nourished and protected, and identity rebuilds itself on a daily basis. But besides being a cradle of affection and a social space, houses also reflect economical,…