This project was born out of a public agitation ( in 1981) by a group of 4000 Mumbai citizens mostly low income segment city workers agitating to demand for a Government land grant for building affordable housing in Mumbai. The community was supported and organized by NNP (Nagari Nivara Parishad) a NGO (non-government organization, a […]
Jessica Debats RCHI Blog Post (Draft) Paris’ new mayor, Anne Hidalgo, is taking an innovative approach to turning the tide of gentrification. Through construction and renovation, as well as a new legal “right of first refusal” accorded to the city, the mayor intends to bring affordable housing to Paris’ affluent central neighborhoods. RCHI is analyzing […]
This project was born out of a public agitation ( in 1981) by a group of 4000 Mumbai citizens mostly low income segment city workers agitating to demand for a Government land grant for building affordable housing in Mumbai. The community was supported and organized by NNP (Nagari Nivara Parishad) a NGO (non-government organization, a […]
San Francisco’s North Beach Place, a HOPE VI mixed-use and mixed-income redevelopment project that opened in 2005, began life as a 229-unit public housing development, completed in 1952. This, in turn, had replaced a low-income industrial and residential area in a predominantly Italian neighborhood near Fisherman’s Wharf, a neighborhood that had been previously devastated by […]
The Quinta Monroy Housing Project by Elemental architects for Chile-Barrio Program is a creative housing solution sensitive to local conditions given considerable funding and capacity constraints. This particular project was developed as a pilot for a larger housing program, through which Elemental continued to design iterations of its housing projects. An architect at the Elemental […]
Banda Aceh, Indonesia. This area was hit the hardest by the 2004 earthquake. Uplink aid organization sent an emergency response team. At the time the Indonesian government developed a large-scale plan that included a massive relocation. Uplink campaigned against the forced relocation and proposed for an alternative plan that allowed residents to rebuild where they […]
The Yerwada project is a slum redevelopment project located in Pune, Maharashtra, India. It provides integrated development of these informal communities through an in-situ up-gradation of shelter, services and amenities.The project is a great example of infrastructure development and incremental up-gradation in a rapidly urbanizing urban context faced with constrained resources and high densities.. The […]
The Yerwada project is a slum redevelopment project located in Pune, Maharashtra, India. It provides integrated development of these informal communities through an in-situ up-gradation of shelter, services and amenities.The project is a great example of infrastructure development and incremental up-gradation in a rapidly urbanizing urban context faced with constrained resources and high densities.. The […]
The Village de L’Est in New Orleans illuminates another important dimension of what affordable housing can afford by demonstrating how local institutions can develop community capacity and support housing for resilient cities in the context of post-disaster reconstruction. Village de L’Est is a neighborhood in Orleans Parish that is located in the southern part of […]
Singapore’s public housing developments, managed by the Housing and Development Board (HDB) is generally regarded as a successful example of urban/national public housing. Beginning with an aggressive squatter clearance and housing development in the early 1960s, Singapore “solved” its slums and squatter issues in ten years. The “HDB flats,” as they are locally known, are […]
