When it comes to large-scale public housing in the United States, the consensus for the past decades has been to let the wrecking balls fly. The demolition of i

Popular opinion holds that public housing is a failure; so what more needs to be said about seventy-five years of dashed hopes and destructive policies? Over th

A richly illustrated history of below-market housing in New York, from the 1920s to today A colorful portrait of the people, places, and policies that have help

In response to a severe housing shortages and high prices making homes unaffordable to many, architects are once again re-engaging with the public housing secto

Public housing was an integral part of the New Deal, as the federal government funded public works to generate economic activity and offer material support to f