Shelter for All
Our third Forefront Fellowship explores how we can design shelters, intake centers and supportive housing to turn the tide on homelessness in New York City.
Overview
In partnership with the New York City Department of Homeless Services and AIA New York, Fellows will visit shelters, interview stakeholders and draft guidelines. How can we use programming and design to transform these places into community assets?
On April 16, we were joined by Commissioner Steven Banks and the 2018 Forefront Fellows to present original ideas on addressing New York City’s homelessness crisis.
On February 19th the Homelessness in the Public Realm team led discussion around how New York City can make its public realm more inclusive.
Homelessness exists not because the system is not working but because this is the way it works.
On November 27, the Supportive Housing team gathered experts to explore creative ways to site new supportive housing buildings in a time of unprecedented resource availability.
On October 16, the Prevention team explored an increasingly worrisome trend in New York City: the emergence of the prison-to-shelter pipeline.
On September 18th, our Forefront Fellows launched the second phase of their year-long inquiry on homelessness with a workshop on their team projects.
Supportive housing is at the center of New York’s response to the homelessness crisis, but its development is constrained by land scarcity and unfavorable land use policies.
Posted — July 24, 2020
Public bathrooms are a basic need, public health concern, human rights concern, and quality of life concern. We propose a series of creative legislative, funding and management strategies for the City of New York to create more public bathrooms.
Posted — July 24, 2020
New York City’s open spaces should protect the dignity and human rights of people experiencing homelessness; connect those living on the streets with the resources they need; and welcome them without excluding other New Yorkers.
Posted — July 24, 2020
Providing incarcerated individuals with access to early and continuous re-entry services will help reduce homelessness in New York City.
Posted — July 24, 2020
The subconscious interplay between dehumanization, stigmatization, and our negative perceptions of the oppressed in our society must be exposed and eliminated.
Posted — July 24, 2020