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Urban Housing and a Just Society

Web Resources: U.S. Housing

Mapping Inequality: Redlining in New Deal America - A georeferenced map database documenting the grading of neighborhoods in U.S. cities as determined by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation between 1935 and 1940.  The grading system became the basis for the practice of "redlining" (refusing mortgage approvals for homes in areas assigned a substandard risk assessment), a long-lived structurally racist housing policy in the U.S.

House Housing: An Untimely History of Architecture and Real Estate - "A multi-year research project conducted from 2013–2016 by the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at Columbia University. The initiative seeks to encourage a public, historically informed conversation about the intersection of architecture and real estate development."

The National Public Housing Museum - The only cultural institution devoted to telling the story of public housing in the United States. Its mission is to preserve, promote, and propel the right of all people to a place where they can live and prosper - a place to call home.

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) - HUD's mission is to create strong, sustainable, inclusive communities and quality affordable homes for all.

National Housing Law Project (NHLP) - The NHLP’s mission is to advance housing justice for poor people and communities by - strengthening and enforcing the rights of tenants, increasing housing opportunities for underserved communities, and preserving and expanding the nation’s supply of safe and affordable homes.

Web Resources: International Housing

IBA - International Building Exhibitions (Internationale Bauausstellungen) - The longstanding German program for urban and regional development. The exhibitions are hallmarks of national building and planning culture. For more than a century, the IBA has brought current issues of planning and building into a national and international discussion.