The COVID-19 crisis sweeping our city and the world is an unprecedented challenge to our accepted way of life but it’s also a rare opportunity to reflect on the foundations of our systems and make changes. Vital, if hard, changes.

Our entire culture is experiencing a moment of reevaluation. What do we really need? What do we want most? What makes life a joyous experience?

Affordable housing has long been cited as a beloved community priority but it’s an expensive and burdensome pursuit has failed to meet goals while a glut of market-rate units have diluted the city’s architectural personality into a generic blur.

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