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housing
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Paddling Home
Read more: Paddling HomeFrom Public Delivery: Kacey Wong has a knack for creating art that investigates the space between people and their surrounding environment. Paddling Home, which was performed on the Hong Kong Victoria Harbor, was a star feature in the Hong Kong…
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Project Row Houses, 1993-2018, Houston (Texas)
Read more: Project Row Houses, 1993-2018, Houston (Texas)Collective Creativity in the Beginning Project Row Houses (PRH) is, and has always been, a unique experiment in activating the intersections between art, cultural and historic preservation, affordable and innovative housing, community engagement and development, neighborhood revitalization, and human empowerment.…
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Cob Houses, Kitchens, Showers for Homeless People
Read more: Cob Houses, Kitchens, Showers for Homeless PeopleMembers of three organizations – Artists Building Communities, Essential Food and Medicine, and Living Earth Structures – have built a kitchen, clinic, free store, stage, toilet, oven, and shower with and for a homeless community near Wood Street in West…
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The Pigeon Palace
Read more: The Pigeon PalaceReal estate agents and investors with plans to visit an open house in San Francisco Tuesday were greeted with a somewhat unexpected scene – a motley crew of Mission activists and neighborhood characters holding signs and singing, “If you buy…
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Wall Hunters: The Slumlord Project
Read more: Wall Hunters: The Slumlord ProjectWallhunter’s Slumlord Project is an innovative project in Baltimore, Maryland that will use street art to expose and publicize vacant and dilapidated housing and the responsible parties for those conditions. The project will use different street art forms to display…
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Project Row House
Read more: Project Row HouseProject Row Houses (PRH) is a neighborhood-based nonprofit art and cultural organization in Houston’s Northern Third Ward, one of the city’s oldest African-American communities. PRH began in 1993 as a result of discussions among African-American artists who wanted to establish…
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A Gift for Amsterdam
Read more: A Gift for AmsterdamIn the summer of 2011, squatters take over an unused building, once an animal shelter, and begin renovating it into a social and cultural center for a neighborhood on the outskirts of Amsterdam. They call it Op de Valreep (“in…