A research project exploring the edges, frames and angles of housing within & through cultural production, archives, exhibits, and other public displays
"Returning to this early period of public housing history provides an important context in which to situate and understand these broader dynamics and simultaneously “recover” alternative models & organizing efforts that envisioned the transformative potential of public housing."
“Housing for, of, and by Workers”: Revisiting Catherine Bauer, the Labor Housing Conference, and the fight for Modern (Public) Housing
https://t.co/L6S05YFi1C #MarketFailure
"A native New Yorker uncovers her family’s roots in NYC’s pioneering non-segregated housing co-op, The Dorie Miller Housing Co-operative, finding and examining an old solution to the current affordable homeownership crisis":
https://t.co/g7wkcaTtl5
The NYC department of records, to their eternal glory, has digitized hundreds of historic videos and audio recordings from @WNYC’s history since 1937.
Anyone who is an NYC-phile needs to get into this STAT.
https://t.co/t8NhhhL5Qe
In "When Home Is a Photograph," Leigh Raiford asks how Black people use photography to make home in the world through an exploration of the practices of Black American activists and artists. #BlackStudies Read the intro for free now: https://t.co/Ew4fILwsej
#OnThisDay in London housing history, 1977: North Kensington squatters hold a referendum on declaring independence from the UK: it creates the Independent Republic of Frestonia
https://t.co/UBarSmAvYF
Mrs Hilton’s Creche and Home accommodated around 100 babies and toddlers at 12-16 Stepney Causeway so that parents could both go to work. It was one of the first such facilities, opening in c. 1870 and cost 1d a day
"What is radical planning history?"
The final version of this piece is out in the latest @PlanningPersp (free access). It calls for alternative epistemologies in planning history - looking forward to the conversations this might spark!
Check it out here: https://t.co/DKPkZRjTFH
#OnThisDay in London solidarity history, 1960, railwaymen, council workers strike in Camden, & firemen refuse to take part in evictions of rent strikers in St Pancras Borough.
More in our pamphlet:
Rent Strike: St Pancras 1960,
Buy online here:
https://t.co/8rWirKxQA7
American Black Directory (1975): "A post-segregation sibling to the Green Book, this directory compiled information on Black-owned businesses across the country." https://t.co/f2siWEbazK
My greatest NYC artifact find is “sonnets for my city” by economist and housing reformer Arthur C. Holden.
We’re talking 100s of poems devoted to zoning, tax assessment, budgeting, finance, and much more.
And yes, I own a copy ;)