By the People: Housing for All
Channel: Cooper Hewitt
Date: 13/10/2016

Part of a series of Design Talks accompanying the exhibition 'By the People: Designing a Better America', “Housing for All” addresses the critical importance of providing affordable housing. National Design Award winner Rosanne Haggerty, the president of Community Solutions, and San Francisco–based affordable housing architect David Baker discuss the future of affordable housing in the United States and its importance for our most vulnerable citizens. Responding to California’s housing crisis, Baker’s firm, David Baker Architects has designed more than ten thousand units throughout California using a set of elegant, economical, and “human-centric” design principles for place-based affordable housing. Community Solutions’ proposal for retrofitting New York City Housing Authority’s Tilden Houses in Brownsville, Brooklyn, provides a blueprint for responding to New York City’s aging and deteriorating public housing.