Public Housing 101 (2003)

Where did public housing come from? Who lives there? Who makes the decisions? What does it look like? What are some of the issues facing public housing today?
These questions guided three CUP educators and eight City-as-School students through a semester of collaborative learning. We first conducted interviews with a group of public housing stakeholders, including tenants, administrators, elected officials, researchers, architects, and organizers. We then created a series of educational posters and a set of three video pieces to try to capture what we learned.