Introduction
In the spring of 2020, Dean Harriet Harris of the School of Architecture, Pratt Institute, asked
The Consortium held a symposium in late 2020
Professor David Burney to lead a consortium of
bringing together a variety of housing experts to
architects and urbanists-- mainly but not
discuss the best way to propose, and to
exclusively teaching at Pratt Institute--in an
advocate for, housing solutions. After the
exploration of housing issues, with thought to
symposium five sub-groups began independent
where Pratt may have a positive impact on
discussion of some major themes that arose in
discourse within and especially outside of
the symposium:
academia. Fundamentals- the Right to Housing Over the past several months, the Consortium
Decarbonization and new housing models and
has been preoccupied with the broad issue of
typologies
housing access and affordability in the United
Managed Community “Climigration”
States of America. While this is and has been
Process and Policies for Planned Retreat and
an ongoing concern among housing professionals,
Repositioning
the current depth of this crisis, exacerbated by increasing income inequality, a steep decline in housing production, the pandemic, and climate change -- particularly with respect to rising sea levels and flood hazard -- provokes a greater sense of urgency. Also, there is the hope that political change at both. the federal and local levels might bring about a political climate in which solutions could be implemented.
Desegregation, Financing, Implementation What follows are policy papers that emerged from each of these five sub-groups. While there is overlap between them, it seems helpful to focus on each separately as they invoke different solutions. Over the next months the Consortium will begin looking for opportunities to promote these proposals and have them adopted at the federal and local level, as well as for ways in which the thinking and unresolved issues raised in this ‘white paper’ might be reflected in the school’s own research and pedagogy, to deepen knowledge and prepare future professionals for the times to come.
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