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Millers River Apartments, undergoing renovation, March 2020. [Cambridge Housing Authority]
HAI Group Gallery,
1st Floor
What does it take to create and maintain truly public housing?
Each year, we invite guest curators to examine a single case study that we believe demonstrates a creative commitment to public housing to learn from housing projects across the country.
This year, Susanne Schindler and Chris Moyer focus on the other CHA—the Cambridge Housing Authority in Massachusetts. They examine how the CHA performed a series of contradictory maneuvers to completely overhaul their deteriorating housing stock.
This installation is based on the article “The Case for Truly Public Housing,” published in December 2022 in the journal Places.
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Generous support for Case Studies was provided by the HAI Group.
Experience the texture and fabric of public housing throughout time by visiting three recreated historic apartments showcasing different families’ experiences at different moments in public housing history between 1938 and 1975. The intimate individual, family and community stories become the lens to understand large national public housing policies and their impact…
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