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Magazine Article
Housing as Intervention: Architecture towards Social Equity
2018
Overview
Procurement systems that favor real-estate profits above all else, combined with design and construction processes that involve architects only in discrete ways, have further foreclosed architects’ engagement with the full design and delivery process, especially in terms of collaborative interactions with potential occupants, limiting their capacity to intervene positively in residents’ lives. In London the average tenant pays 49 percent of his or her pre-tax income towards rent,6 while neighborhoods in Sydney lost 10 to 20 per cent of their teachers, firefighters and other ‘key workers’ from 2006 to 2016 as housing prices soared and those residents moved to further-flung locales.7 History tells us that improvements in housing for people with lower incomes often come not from benevolence towards vulnerable populations, but out of the self-preservation of the more powerful, against the spread of disease or to prevent uprisings. Since terms for the range of publicly and privately funded types of housing covered differ regionally — for instance “affordable housing” is typically defined in the U.S. as costing no more than 30 percent of a household’s income, and in the U.K. as 80 percent of market rate — terminology is defined within the articles themselves. Beyond these definitions, the question for communities facing displacement amid skyrocketing market-rate rents is “affordable for whom?” Housing units designated as affordable by governments, the product of negotiations between developers and local authorities, often remain out of reach for low-income residents.
