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ReHousing Featured in Azure
ReHousing and LGA’s Ulster House are featured in Azure Magazine! With reflections from Janna Levitt and a look at the ReHousing project’s broader context, Azure highlights the potential of gentle density to shape more livable neighbourhoods - give it a read!
On a systemic level, ReHousing is aimed at diversifying a city defined by stark “tall and sprawl” dichotomies of density and a development industry dominated by economies of scale. And it does so by “empowering citizen developers in converting single-family homes into multi-unit housing” — a pattern that, while often overlooked, actually shaped much of our urban history, as Levitt explains. “You’d carve up apartments out of houses, maybe you’d rent them out to family or relatives, and you’d make a multi-family home out of a single-family home,” she says. “This is where the idea of the ‘citizen developer’ came from: It’s a bottom-up response to creating more housing.” -Azure Magazine
Read the whole article here!
On a systemic level, ReHousing is aimed at diversifying a city defined by stark “tall and sprawl” dichotomies of density and a development industry dominated by economies of scale. And it does so by “empowering citizen developers in converting single-family homes into multi-unit housing” — a pattern that, while often overlooked, actually shaped much of our urban history, as Levitt explains. “You’d carve up apartments out of houses, maybe you’d rent them out to family or relatives, and you’d make a multi-family home out of a single-family home,” she says. “This is where the idea of the ‘citizen developer’ came from: It’s a bottom-up response to creating more housing.” -Azure Magazine
Read the whole article here!
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