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New York Governor Kathy Hochul announces $200 million grant program to attract high-tech industries across the state

Archinect

The grants will be disbursed through Empire State Development (ESD), the umbrella organization for New York’s two principal economic development financing entities: The New York State Urban Development Corporation and the New York Job Development Authority.

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"The best tool for empowering people is through affordable housing," says architect Victor Body-Lawson

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Architects should see themselves as the representatives of the community in the building process and not simply as an agent of developers, argues low-cost housing specialist Victor Body-Lawson in this interview. His methods for doing this focus on balancing the needs of communities with the prerogatives of developers.

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It Won't Be Over Soon: How Will COVID Change the World?

Community Architect

In a second part I will try to outline scenarios for what developers, employers, urban planners, transit agencies and others could do to prepare. Already developers build less, even applications for new affordable housing are down. Possibly the US will face European conditions where art is a social service largely financed by taxes.

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