Housing Policy
Content dealing with housing rights, affordability, evictions, rent control, zoning, and public housing governance. Explores the intersection of policy and spatial justice.
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Distribution of Housing Types and Hybrid Mix
Housing Model — Hudson Hotel, 357 West 57th Street, Manhattan The housing model for the former Hudson Hotel reimagines the site as a hybrid residential and civic ecosystem, transforming a single-use hospitality building into a mixed-tenure, mixed-use housing framework that responds to Midtown West’s affordability pressures, transient populations, and service-worker displacement. Housing types are deliberately distributed Continue reading
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Housing Justice
Affordability, Evictions, and Displacement in New York City New York City faces a deepening housing crisis characterized by rising eviction filings, severe overcrowding, and escalating rent burdens. Despite being a city renowned for its density and diversity, access to affordable and secure housing remains elusive for a growing share of its population. This article examines Continue reading
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Rethinking the Brooklyn Marine Terminal
A Critique of the Vision Plan Abstract The recently approved Brooklyn Marine Terminal (BMT) Vision Plan represents one of New York City’s most ambitious waterfront redevelopment initiatives of the early twenty-first century. The plan integrates maritime modernization, mixed-income housing, public open space, and climate resilience strategies within a 122-acre site at the confluence of Red Continue reading
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Selling the Commons. The Systematic Erasure of Section 9 Housing
In a deal cloaked in the language of “revitalization” and “affordability,” the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) has once again put public land on the auction block. This time, it’s the Manhattanville Houses in West Harlem — a public housing campus home to thousands of New Yorkers who have, for decades, weathered systemic neglect, Continue reading
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Unhomely Homes: Dwelling as Dislocation in a Global Age
“We do not dwell because we have built, but we build and have built because we dwell.”— Martin Heidegger¹ At the root of Heidegger’s inquiry lies a rupture. His distinction between building and dwelling opens a chasm that continues to haunt architectural discourse: the ontological dissonance between shelter and home, between house and world. Yet Continue reading