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    Case Studies for Truly Public Housing

    Landscape view centered on a high rise building, Millers River Apartments, undergoing renovation, with scaffolding surrounding it. Photo courtesy of Cambridge Housing Authority.

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    Millers River Apartments, undergoing renovation, March 2020. [Cambridge Housing Authority]

    Exhibition

    • HAI Group Gallery,
      1st Floor

    • Free

    Paradoxes of Public Housing: The Case of Millers River 

    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.

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