One of the handful of urbanist media platforms run by a Black person, and probably the only one with a queer, disabled, feminist currently based in Baltimore who also dabbles in fiber arts and singing. I'm Kristen, nice to meet you.
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[Photo Essay Friday] Another round at the metrobar!
I’m going to try out creating some fun spaces on the newsletter for Friday and Monday to practice the part of the Defying Gentrification Manifesto that states, “I can create and cultivate”. Yes, this newsletter is a creation and cultivation...
We need to build and subsidize housing.
I often walk neighborhoods and take pictures of these signs, especially if I can imagine myself living there. Image of Capitol Hill in Washington DC by me from 2023.
This post is for the person who read yesterday’s post and said that’s all...
It’s time for us to get visionary and global around housing across the world
Photo by Tom Rumble on Unsplash
Zooming out on the housing crisis globally reminds me, and I hope it reminds you, that we are on the same Earth.
Maybe we are separated temporarily by bodies of water, airplanes that can carry us over the s...
I write every day, wanting to be wrong about gentrification.
I’m just me, and I have so many questions on how cities work and I desperately want to wake up one day and not have to defy gentrification
I’m cracking open so many rabbit holes, and I look forward to sharing them with you, not necessarily...
This philosophy on housing could change the world
Photo by C on Unsplash
I wanted to spend this week reflecting and raising up what it would take to get everyone in the world housed. To get us started, let's focus on this quote about the right to housing.
It comes from Christoph Reinprec...
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