Housing

Chris Burbank discusses alternative policing strategies to address homelessness in conversation with Madison Loew.

Providing incarcerated individuals with access to early and continuous re-entry services will help reduce homelessness in New York City.

Jonathan Marvel discusses the design, accessibility, and perception of homeless shelters in conversation with Ishita Gaur.

Rita Zimmer discusses HousingPlus' holistic approach to affordable and supportive housing and the importance of reentry services in conversation with Heli Pinillos.

The subconscious interplay between dehumanization, stigmatization, and our negative perceptions of the oppressed in our society must be exposed and eliminated.

Judy Whiting discusses the impact of criminal records on homelessness and access to housing in conversation with Melissa Minnich.

In 2018-19, the Urban Design Forum’s Forefront Fellows investigated the homelessness crisis in New York City. This compilation presents the original design and policy proposals developed by the Fellows and accompanying interviews with subject-matter experts.

Graham Ciraulo discusses systematic inequalities in neighborhood zoning and housing in conversation with Alp Bozkurt, April De Simone, Nova Lucero and Emma Silverblatt.

Marcus Moore and Rob Robinson discuss the experience of homelessness and housing as a human right in conversation with Alp Bozkurt, April De Simone, Nova Lucero and Emma Silverblatt.

This compilation presents the work completed by the Urban Design Forum in 2018-19 addressing the recent homelessness crisis in New York City.

It will take the effort of each of us to eliminate homelessness. But we must use our money, power, and positions in society to provide a platform for those directly impacted to lead the way.

The Urban Design Forum interviews Sandra Lobo, Executive Director of the Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition on organizing around racial, environmental, and health justice and economic democracy.

As part of our 2019 Forefront Fellowship, these posters feature proposals explore the role buildings can play in advancing heat resiliency.

The Turning the Heat report emerges from the Urban Design Forum’s partnership with the Mayor’s Office of Resiliency to research how urban design can mitigate the impacts of extreme heat in New York City’s most heat-vulnerable neighborhoods.

The Urban Design Forum interviews Janne Flisrand of Neighbors for More Neighbors, a Minneapolis advocacy group that helped the city’s 2040 plan become reality.