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Full-Text Articles in Architecture
America’S Finest Housing Crisis: Racialized Housing & Suburban Development, Vicenta Martinez Govea
America’S Finest Housing Crisis: Racialized Housing & Suburban Development, Vicenta Martinez Govea
McNair Summer Research Program
U.S. Government operations between 1940-1950 brought unprecedented direct and indirect employment opportunities to San Diego, exacerbating an already growing housing shortage. To accommodate the thousands of new defense workers, the government produced the largest defense housing project to date in the small neighborhood of Linda Vista. However, this opportunity and largesse was extended primarily to a select group of white working-class families who had access to defense jobs and, consequently, subsidized housing. Military presence in San Diego during World War II shaped the design of homes and exclusively allocated housing, as both shelter and financial instrument, to white working-class families …
Micro-Housing In Seattle Update: Combating “Seattle-Ization”, Taylor Haines
Micro-Housing In Seattle Update: Combating “Seattle-Ization”, Taylor Haines
Seattle University Law Review SUpra
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The State Of Affordable Housing In Pierce County, Ali Modarres, Hannah Miner, Anthony Hoffmann
The State Of Affordable Housing In Pierce County, Ali Modarres, Hannah Miner, Anthony Hoffmann
Professional Reports
Affordable housing is a complex issue, requiring significant regional and metropolitan level attention. There are very few cities that can claim to have succeeded in solving this problem. However, the policy toolkit to engage with this particular challenge has grown over the last few decades. Given the diminishing role of the federal government in building and financing affordable/social housing, it has fallen to tribes, states, counties, and cities to tackle this challenge on their own or through collaboration. The State of Washington and Pierce County governments are no exception. Meanwhile, as the number of cost-burdened households has increased over time, …
Beyond The Market: A “Public-Commons-Partnership” For Housing, Arielle Lawson
Beyond The Market: A “Public-Commons-Partnership” For Housing, Arielle Lawson
Publications and Research
The commodification of housing has led to new levels of unaffordability for tenants all over the country. With skyrocketing rents and an explosion of homelessness, we are faced with the glaring failures of our capitalist housing system to meet people’s most basic human needs. Recognizing the inherent limitations of “affordable housing” within a profit-driven system, we need a paradigm shift around housing that can change the terms of the debate, and advance a real alternative to the speculative market. A growing housing justice movement — combined with a renewed politicization of tenants — is leading the way. From new rent …