December 14, 2009
Our pals from the Planning Center at the Municipal Arts Society used the Affordable Housing Toolkit as part of the curriculum for CITI Youth — a neat program that educates high schoolers in land-use and development issues and then places them in paid internships at their local Community Boards.
MAS Planner Sideya Sherman used the workshop to stage a mock Community Board meeting. First, students picked a neighborhood (Bed-Stuy) and used the felt pieces to map income demographics there. Then they used the program patches to learn about various housing subsidy programs — from Section 8 to 421-A — and looked at which families are eligible for each.
But rather using the rent patches to look at actual rents in the area, they used them to mark rents in a hypothetical proposed development. Would the rents there be ‘affordable’ to the people who live in the neighborhood? Does that matter? The students used the data on the chart as a platform for a debate over whether the Community Board should recommend the project. Very neat!
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December 1, 2009
GOOD Magazine invited CUP and super-designer Glen Cummings of MTWTF to present the Affordable Housing Toolkit at their event featuring “projects that enhance daily life for the residents of New York City.”
We presented a little slideshow that you can look at here.
Thanks for having us!
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October 23, 2009
Where: Make the Road
Wednesday, October 21, 7-9pm
92-10 Roosevelt Ave, Queens
FREE
Our friends Dave Powell and Katie Goldstein from Tenants & Neighbors used Envisioning Development Toolkits to conduct a Spanish-language workshop on zoning law and ULURP at Make the Road in Queens.
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August 22, 2009
Repurpose! A Community Workshop
Saturday, August 22, 10:00 a.m. – 10:00 p.m.
611 North 40th Street, West Philadelphia
FREE
Our friends at the Slought foundation invited CUP to participate in a day of community workshops in Philadelphia.
“In the spirit of the civic activism promoted by the architects and designers featured in the Into the Open exhibition, the National Constitution Center and Slought Foundation present Repurpose!, a one-day community workshop and design competition highlighting the creative possibilities of urban revitalization in the Mantua neighborhood in West Philadelphia. The event will take place on a vacant lot at 611- 627 North 40th Street, currently slated to become the site of new affordable housing units.”
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