Towers

Affordable housing towers, a supposed solution, then a nagging problem, now facing some reconsideration in the light of successful market rate tower complexes everywhere

Social Housing In A 15-Minute City

Home Sweet Fashionable Home! Out In Lawn mowers Bird's eye views from teeny balconies Polyethylene tricycles 15 minute walks to any/everywhere important Commutes Live theatre, noisy mufflers, sirens Cars Elevators Meaningful female existence (childbirth and children) Meaningless females - Cat-ladies according...

Office Tower —> Housing Solution? Wishful Thinking! . . . How Come?

If you kinda squint in the shaded canyons of downtown high rise commercial buildings, you can easily see how much, on the outside, they can resemble high rise HOUSING...

A Tug Of War Between The Affordable Housing Crisis And The Climate Crisis

The demolition of Cabrini Green — public housing units in that were home to 15,000 people in Chicago — is the starting point of this article in Salon about...

Dallas Highrise Residential Parking: An Affordable Housing Burden?

At affordablehousingaction.org we've not been overly impressed by the blanket condemnation of zoning bylaws by the housing industry. NIMBY neighbourhood attitudes, perfectly understandable, have become a convenient 'fall guy'...

Trickle Up: A Watery Metaphor for Housing Price Change That Defies Gravity

'Trickle-down' is the process that is touted to solve affordable housing crisis. It is the favourite viewpoint of the American housing industry and supported by the YIMBY (Yes in...

Born Again Social Housing? Is It Possible? Scotland’s Done It

America is where social housing went to die. Poisoned by the cold war that tarnished all things that remotely hinted of socialism or communism, social housing's slow death was,...

Houses Of The Future? Sticks Win Out Over Huffing And Puffing Wolf.

A seven story wooden structure built in Italy was rated strong enough to withstand a 1995 earthquake in Kobe, Japan, which destroyed some 50,000 houses. Watch It Not Fall...

Resilient City, Toronto Style

"A Resilient Toronto is ... Home. A place where housing is a right, and every resident has a safe, decent, and affordable place to live." Compared with stories that...

How Library Systems Can Help Address Affordable Housing Crises

Increasing density seems the only option for building affordable housing in the downtown core of many cities. Even smaller homes in higher towers may only temporarily be affordable, if...

Hong Kong: An Animated Future Where There Won’t Be Room To Move

The authors of a South China Post article have criticized a recent study suggesting that Hong Kong's micro-apartment present can only lead to a future of even smaller flats. Their speculation: mental...

An American Public Housing Project: Failure Of Humanity? Or Failure Of Housing?

The great American public housing projects have failed. They became lawless, violent, unliveable. The great unanswered question: did the needy, with their brutish, immoral, uncivilized and criminal ways, cause...

Brutalism: The Demise Of The High Rise Live-in Parking Garage?

Who knew that architecture could warp the mind, pollute the thinking, cause people to sink into poverty and condemn them to a life of crime? That seemed to be...
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