Where We Live Now

Exploring the historical, political, and socioeconomic forces that shape our homes and communities.

His Modernist Ideas for L.A. Living Were Dismissed. Now, They Could Be a Blueprint for Rebuilding

His Modernist Ideas for L.A. Living Were Dismissed. Now, They Could Be a Blueprint for Rebuilding

A South Bronx Garden Offers a Place for New York’s Immigrant Communities to Keep Traditions Alive

A South Bronx Garden Offers a Place for New York’s Immigrant Communities to Keep Traditions Alive

The Case Against Glass Houses

The Case Against Glass Houses

From the Archive: The Problem With Building Up Boomtowns

From the Archive: The Problem With Building Up Boomtowns

From the Archive: How the Interstate Shaped the Tri-State Area

From the Archive: How the Interstate Shaped the Tri-State Area

Can Micro-Units Help Gen Z’s Loneliness Epidemic?

Can Micro-Units Help Gen Z’s Loneliness Epidemic?

In Los Angeles, Senior Housing Is Keeping One Neighborhood Alive

In Los Angeles, Senior Housing Is Keeping One Neighborhood Alive

In Toronto, an Indigenous Women’s Emergency Shelter Provides a Safe Haven to Recover

In Toronto, an Indigenous Women’s Emergency Shelter Provides a Safe Haven to Recover

The Growing Problem That Should Bring Toilets From Taboo to Top of Mind

The Growing Problem That Should Bring Toilets From Taboo to Top of Mind

Is the Future of the Outdoors...Indoors?

Is the Future of the Outdoors...Indoors?

Inside Chicago’s Helmut Jahn–Designed Supportive Housing Development

Inside Chicago’s Helmut Jahn–Designed Supportive Housing Development

Can Local, Environmentally Sensitive Building Techniques Help Neutralize Turbulent Conflict Zones?

Can Local, Environmentally Sensitive Building Techniques Help Neutralize Turbulent Conflict Zones?

One Man’s Tiny Home Acts as a Prototype in a Village for Those Who Lacked Housing

One Man’s Tiny Home Acts as a Prototype in a Village for Those Who Lacked Housing

What the Roaches in My Rent-Stabilized Apartment Taught Me About the Housing Crisis

What the Roaches in My Rent-Stabilized Apartment Taught Me About the Housing Crisis

It’s Here, Our Annual “Money Issue”

It’s Here, Our Annual “Money Issue”

Once Made for Mail, It’s Now for Your Golden Years

Once Made for Mail, It’s Now for Your Golden Years

Is GoFundMe the New Insurance?

Is GoFundMe the New Insurance?

How Do We Preserve Architectural History and Prepare for the Future at the Same Time?

How Do We Preserve Architectural History and Prepare for the Future at the Same Time?

Are Yasmeen Lari’s “Zero Carbon, Zero Waste, Zero Donor” Bamboo Villages Working?

Are Yasmeen Lari’s “Zero Carbon, Zero Waste, Zero Donor” Bamboo Villages Working?

The Good and Bad News for Housing in 2025

The Good and Bad News for Housing in 2025

How the Biden Administration Addressed the Housing Crisis This Year

How the Biden Administration Addressed the Housing Crisis This Year

When Natural Disasters Threaten Modernist Icons

When Natural Disasters Threaten Modernist Icons

Why Do We Keep Developing in Climate Disaster Zones?

Why Do We Keep Developing in Climate Disaster Zones?

The Transformation of Cheyenne, Wyoming

The Transformation of Cheyenne, Wyoming

What to Do With a Building That Has a Traumatic Past?

What to Do With a Building That Has a Traumatic Past?

Well-Designed Low-Income Housing Is Possible

Well-Designed Low-Income Housing Is Possible

A Michigan Bill Would Let Renters Fix Their Own Dang Apartments (and Deduct It From the Rent)

A Michigan Bill Would Let Renters Fix Their Own Dang Apartments (and Deduct It From the Rent)

Will NYC Renters Finally See the End of the Dreaded Broker’s Fee?

Will NYC Renters Finally See the End of the Dreaded Broker’s Fee?

The Man Planting Live Oaks to Save Louisiana’s Coastal Ridges

The Man Planting Live Oaks to Save Louisiana’s Coastal Ridges

How Millennials and Gen Zers Are Buying With Friends Amid Impossible Home Costs

How Millennials and Gen Zers Are Buying With Friends Amid Impossible Home Costs

Can Mercer Labs Keep the “Immersive Museum” Trend Alive?

Can Mercer Labs Keep the “Immersive Museum” Trend Alive?

An Organization Is Using History to Rehab Public Housing

An Organization Is Using History to Rehab Public Housing

We’ll Never Climb Down From the Tree House

We’ll Never Climb Down From the Tree House

Hate That Vacant Lot in Your Neighborhood? Turn It Into Something Great

Hate That Vacant Lot in Your Neighborhood? Turn It Into Something Great

Campus Protests Are Revealing the Precarity of Student Housing

Campus Protests Are Revealing the Precarity of Student Housing

30 Families Wanted to Build a Home Together. Two Architects Tell Us How They Made It Happen

30 Families Wanted to Build a Home Together. Two Architects Tell Us How They Made It Happen

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