A government program is using demolition and relocation to remake neighborhoods with “non-Western” immigrants, poverty or crime.
Tag: Public and Subsidized Housing
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Architecture’s Second Looks, and Second Acts
From Lower Manhattan to Crenshaw Boulevard, Zaha Hadid to Belgian Art Nouveau, this fall brings reappraisals of buildings, sites, streets, design movements and architects that we thought we knew.
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Fire in Johannesburg, South Africa, Kills 74
Johannesburg, with a severe shortage of affordable housing, has hundreds of illegally occupied derelict buildings that officials and housing advocates say have become firetraps.
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A D.C. Suburb Finds a Creative Answer to America’s Housing Shortage
Montgomery County, Md., like many places, has an affordable housing crisis. So it started acting like a benevolent real estate investor.