Date of Submission
Spring 5-5-2020
Degree Type
Undergraduate Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Architecture
Department
Architecture
Committee Chair/First Advisor
Michael Carroll
Secondary Advisor
Elizabeth Martin
Abstract
The number of social housing being built is at its lowest for 70 years and we face a lack of housing that people can afford. As a result many people will live in fear and stress of being forced to move out of their home. Millennials however, will have to endure this problem coming out of college while suffering the dept of student loans. One of the biggest heartbreaks in America was the downfall of public housing throughout the nation. The demolition of public housing to give way to new infrastructures that are more promising and that will generate more money. Why aren’t more social housing being built? Public housing concentrates poverty in particular locations, creating one of the worst social ills in American cities. Concentrated poverty is associated with higher crime, racial segregation, poor educational outcomes, drug abuse, gang violence, and host of other problems. Meanwhile, private market focused policies have proven completely inadequate for ameliorating this problem. My thesis aims to investigate the changing conditions occurring in society today and how architecture has the potential to respond to the conditions of millennial interactions and programmatic needs in a city environment of the future.