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

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

A Booklist Best Book of the Year: “The definitive history of the life and death of America’s most iconic housing project,” Chicago’s Cabrini-Green (Davi

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

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