April 25, 2025 Ι Bloomberg CityLab The items on display at the new National Public Housing Museum in Chicago are almost defiant in their ordinariness. There’s a hammer once used by a resident of the city’s Stateway Gardens development; an iron skillet from a family living in Houston’s Cuney Homes; a hose that once watered… Continue reading At the National Public Housing Museum, an Embattled Idea Finds a Home
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In Detroit, a Home for LGBTQ Youth Balances Being Seen With Being Safe
Bloomberg CityLab Ι Nov. 22, 2022 When the Ruth Ellis Center, a Detroit nonprofit that helps support LGBTQ youth, began a foster care program 10 years ago, they kept it very quiet; no press release, not even a sign on the door. “We were so afraid of how the community would react,” says Mark Erwin,… Continue reading In Detroit, a Home for LGBTQ Youth Balances Being Seen With Being Safe