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Karen Kubey, Assistant Professor, John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, University of Toronto, speaks about housing justice, how we need to design for abundance, we don’t live in policy, and how housing supply is part of a larger toolbox to provide housing for all.
One thing that I focus on in my work as a designer is I think we have a collective failure of imagination. I think that ending the housing crisis And producing and renovating as much green social housing as we need is extremely achievable.
it’s very hard for people to imagine what that would look like. And that it is possible. And… I think the reason is that we have been subject to propaganda for many, many years, for decades, since the Cold War, basically, that says, Ah, no, social housing doesn’t work in the United States. It’s only for somewhere like Sweden. Forget about it. It’ll never work.
Show Notes
- Karen Kubey
- Aging Against the Machine
- Architecture and Housing Justice in Mexico
- Architecture and the Right to Housing free webinar series
- Karen’s Low Rise High Density exhibition, Center for Architecture, New York
- The Homes Guarantee | People’s Action
- The right to adequate housing,Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
- Pathways to Social Housing in New York: 20 policies to shift from private profit to public good by the Community Service Society of New York
- NORCs (Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities) in New York by Interboro
- Retrofitting Suburbia series by June Williamson and Ellen Dunham-Jones
rewilding the
suburbs
There is nothing natural about a single-family detached home.
