September 2010
Fox Courts, an 80unit affordable housing development for individuals and families, is the product of a struggle for housing equity. When Fox Courts opened in 2009, it marked the culmination of a decadelong battle for convenient, attractive, affordable housing. Today, as families settle in the vibrant, downtown Oakland neighborhood, it stands as a symbol of the community standing up to powerful interests and winning.
Published in AIA Seattle’s Fall Forum
Architecture is not an art that can exist in a cocoon, independent from the social order. If we can use design as
our means within Culture to rectify the shortcomings of Law and the Economy, we may find an arena that brings us that much
closer to the yearned–for ideal of economic and social equity.
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Decades have passed since the heady days of Urban Renewal when public and private capital transformed neighborhoods in ways that stripped them of their complex histories and realities. No longer do ... (more)