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Where Housing Meets Humanity

Three innovative housing projects that focus on care, community, and climate, redefining public housing with dignity.

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An Urban Island as Affordable Housing

LOHA Architects are expanding the definition for permanent supportive housing in Los Angeles

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Are Shipping Containers the Future of Affordable Housing?

At Watts Works in Los Angeles, Studio One Eleven has discovered the power of using shipping containers to build affordable housing.

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Historic B’nai Israel Synagogue Gets a New Life as Affordable Housing

Desmone Architects transformed the 1953 Hebrew school and synagogue into a 45-unit apartment complex with 38 affordable units.

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How Koning Eizenberg Is Revolutionizing Multifamily Design by Going Against the Grain

Over the last few years the California has evolved a system of cross grain massing to open homes up to space, light, and community.

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El Borinquen Residence Welcomes Supportive Housing in Vivid Color

Alexander Gorlin Architects’ newest supportive housing project in the Bronx draws on Latin Modernism to enmesh itself in its context.

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A Los Angeles Firm Uses Modular Construction to Create Truly Affordable Housing

KTGY Architecture + Planning's innovative prefab construction technique is helping to add critical density in L.A.

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In Brooklyn, a Supportive Housing Development gets the Big Firm Treatment

Robert A.M. Stern Architects (RAMSA) provided the design for Edwin’s Place, a 125-unit affordable and supportive development, but getting the project built took a village.

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HopeWorks Station Offers a Sustainable Slant on Transitional Housing in the Pacific Northwest

The LEED Platinum mixed-use complex designed by GGLO combines housing with social services for a net-positive community hub.

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Joseph Kunkel is Fast-Tracking Quality Housing for Indigenous People

How the founder of MASS's Sustainable Native Communities Design Lab builds back better—against the clock.

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A Colorful Portland Prototype Reinvents the SRO

Argyle Gardens, the nation’s first affordable housing project to open during the pandemic, was designed by Holst Architecture to also be replicable.

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Inside Victor Body-Lawson’s Mission to Humanize Public Housing

Combining experience at Davis Brody Bond and his own paintings from his studio, the New York architect aims to enhance the lives of residents.

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Moody Nolan Designs a House to Give Away—Land and All

With each Legacy House it builds, the firm helps create ownership one family at a time.

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Six Years in the Making, Berlin’s IBeB Cooperative Housing Development Creates a Tight-Knit Community of Residents

Recently shortlisted for the 2019 EU Mies Award, the 66-unit project's lengthy customization process and ample common spaces created a community from the ground-up.

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In Paris, an Affordable Housing Complex Creates a New Vertical Neighborhood

Designed by Hamonic + Masson & Associates, Rue Camille Claudel offers clever sites for communal gathering and abundant access to the outdoors.