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The Current Crisis Makes it Clear: We Need a New Deal for Affordable Housing

Azure Magazine

There are, in effect, two parallel but distinct housing crises: While the decades-long erosion of government-led housing programs has left homeless and low-income people without support, rapidly escalating land values in major cities are quickly making rent – let alone home-ownership – all but unattainable for middle-case urbanites.

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The snake that eats its tail

UX Collective

Creating infrastructural hooks like APIs (application programming interfaces) leads to increased demand for applications with notifications. How can designers save agency, build awareness of the issues, and create resistance? Governments can use tools without contributing to the privatization of the commons.