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ICONIC HOME DESIGNS
The preservation campaign stalled for years over difficulties in documenting Underground Railroad ties that were clandestine by design.
To tackle barriers to capital for Black businesses, an Oakland project is trying a new strategy: Monthly cash payments, no strings attached.
If Joe Biden hopes to enact an ambitious recovery agenda modeled on the New Deal, he must confront its racist legacy.
In the early 1970s, African Americans in North Carolina coalesced around constructing a new community where the mission was black empowerment. And they were able to pull it off with financing from President Richard Nixon.
A new Brookings Institution report shows how black migration patterns have been reshaping the urban landscape, particularly in the South.
The postwar danchi style of homes lured Japanese salarymen and their families out of the city with suburban comforts and privacy.
Gecekondu, or “landed overnight,” homes were hastily constructed as residents from the countryside rushed to Turkey’s urban centers after World War II.
Athens polikatoikias — concrete apartments with tiered balconies — were built quickly to create affordable housing, but their design has stood the test of time.
Singapore’s affordable housing program worked so well that some of its subsidized apartments now resell for more than $700,000.
A different kind of wealth distribution in 17th-century Amsterdam paved the way for its quintessential home design.
