Responsa
The Struggle Begins at Home
Reimagining housing as the ground shifts under our feet
The Editors
Office Hours
Office Hours: Daniel Libeskind
“As the architect, you have to go and meet people.”
Aaron Goldstein
Roundtable
Four responses to the Covid-19 housing crisis.
On Redistributing Vacant Housing
Jenny Akchin and Lynn Lewis
On Preventing Pandemic Displacement
Samuel Stein
On Avoiding the New Foreclosure Crisis
Oksana Mironova
On Homes for All
Ilhan Omar
Conversation
Visions in Penal Time
Scholar Nicole R. Fleetwood discusses how incarcerated artists navigate the constraints of the prison’s built environment.
Zoé Samudzi
Roundtable
On Redistributing Vacant Housing
It’s never been more urgent to turn our cities’ vacant living spaces into housing for the homeless.
Jenny Akchin and Lynn Lewis
Roundtable
On Preventing Pandemic Displacement
We must improve the housing that helps illness spread—without displacing the people who live there.
Samuel Stein
Roundtable
On Avoiding the New Foreclosure Crisis
Avoiding another foreclosure crisis means pressuring lawmakers to put the brakes on speculative behavior.
Oksana Mironova
Roundtable
On Homes for All
In the short term, we need to cancel rent and mortgages. In the longer term, we need to decommodify housing.
Ilhan Omar
Translation
Residents of all of the neighborhoods: Unite!
The full translation of the Manifesto of the First Congress of the Federation of the Residents of all the Popular Neighborhoods of Salonica, 1924.
Residents of the Popular Neighborhoods of Salonica
Translation
Rent Strike
A dramatization of the Lower East Side rent strikes of 1908.
Morris Rosenfeld
Art
Hide and Seek
Adam Liam Rose’s recent works on paper investigate the violence and vulnerability of structures built for “safety.”
Ariel Goldberg
Fiction
THANX MARTIN GR8!1
“I’m not sure how to put this.” Neilson folded his arms over his chest. “But were you purposefully farting into the meditation cushion?”
Lee Conell
Poetry
Household of Eight
“When it’s night / And they go to bed, / Mother begins / To wish she were dead.”
Avrom Reyzen
Poetry
Beys
“The history of our houses is a history of dissolution, like vows on Kol Nidre”
Anthony Russell
Comic
Invisible Violence
The protesters of today are writing in the margins of our cities. It’s about time we read them.
Julia Alekseyeva
Review
Blueprint for Feminism
Feminist City helps us dream up alternative futures, even if it doesn’t do the dreaming itself.
Kristen Ghodsee
Review
Shelter in Place
Malicroix—a 1948 French novel about a man who has isolated himself in a house to fulfill the strange terms of his inheritance—resonates uncannily with our contemporary experience of quarantine.
Bridget Bergin
Review
Suburban Legends
Jason Diamond’s The Sprawl is a useful reminder that there is no single story to tell about the American suburbs.
Nora Caplan-Bricker
