The Housing Justice Lab is a platform for dialogue, research, and strategic design that advocates for equitable neighborhood development. It brings together students, faculty, researchers, activists, community-based organizations, housing experts, and local politicians committed to housing justice and community-driven development across cities.
Combining academic and popular knowledge, this collaborative laboratory aims to expose the damaging conditions produced by the current housing system, such as discrimination, tenure insecurity, displacement, and homelessness. It also explores practices and policy frameworks designed to pursue housing justice through the promotion of tenant protections and rent regulation, new forms of access to adequate housing, capacity building for collective action, cooperative models of housing and community development, and other social alternatives for housing and equitable development.
Through public programs, this laboratory amplifies the efforts of communities, housing coalitions, urban movements, and policy platforms promoting housing justice. Building on the exchange of current experiences and emerging practices, this platform facilitates university-community partnerships to produce knowledge, methodologies, and instruments aimed at advancing local efforts to bring about social and spatial justice.
To learn more, visit parsons.edu/housingjusticelab.
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