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Our Top Picks for Spring Stay on top of issues affecting affordable housing and social justice topics via these interesting choices!
1. Housing in America Podcast: Pathways to Homeownership Putting a roof over their heads is a struggle for many Americans. Rising house prices, restrictive zoning, increasing rents, and a lack of small mortgages are some of the hurdles facing people who want a safe and secure place to call home. Alex Horowitz and Tara Roche, directors of The Pew Charitable Trusts’ housing policy initiative, discuss some of the challenges—and how to overcome them—for those pursuing homeownership. 2. We Grown Now A film that takes the idea of beauty seriously and works, with deceptive ease, to show us the tiny pleasures that make up life in notorious Cabrini-Green. Beginning in 1995, this former Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) public housing project on the Near North Side of Chicago, Illinois was torn down, with the last dilapidated mid- and high- rise building demolished in 2011.
3. Housing the Nation Scholars, advocates, and architects assess America’s affordable housing crisis and suggest various strategies to rectify it, including numerous images of important, recently-built houses and complexes.
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