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Renewing NYCHA
Thursdays, May 29 – June 26
8:30 – 10:00AM
Kohn Pedersen Fox
11 West 42nd Street, 6th Floor

What is the future of New York City’s public housing? This spring, join the Forum and Institute for Urban Design as we generate new ideas to preserve our aging buildings, improve the lives of tenants, and develop new housing options.

In the eight decades since the construction of the East Village’s First Houses in 1935, the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) has built the nation’s largest and most successful public housing program. As many as 600,000 residents–or 5% of New York City’s total population–live in 178,000 apartments across 334 developments.

Yet the challenges facing NYCHA are mounting: aging buildings desperately in need of repair; declining federal funding; a 26% unemployment rate; and over 160,000 families on the wait list. Many housing developments are at the water’s edge, exposed to the rising tide and susceptible to skyrocketing real estate values.

Join us Thursdays this spring as we invite housing designers, developers, investors, and tenants to make bold proposals to improve New York City’s public housing and confront the city’s housing crisis. Over breakfast, our experts will present their visions in quick succession before opening up the debate to you, our Fellows.

This series is by invitation-only. Seats are exclusively available to Forum + Institute Fellows and invited guests.

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