(Photo of Catherine Bauer courtesy of Environmental Design Archives at UC Berkeley; “Modern Housing” book cover courtesy of Berkeley Historical Society and Museum; 1934 New York Times article on ...

As an avowed part of the programme of the New Deal, housing has recently become front-page news. A book, therefore, which surveys the history of modern housing from its real beginning in the ...

Today’s college students want a housing environment that reflects a dynamic blend between contemporary and functional design. The pandemic also induced new preferences for social spaces and amenities.

As mosquitoes become resistant to insecticides and malaria parasites become resistant to drugs, researchers looked at how making changes to houses might contribute to tackling the deadly disease. They ...

Since its founding LA has been selling lifestyle and better living. It has produced residential archetypes, like California Ranch houses, Case Study homes, dingbat apartments, bungalow courts, ...

When people had trouble paying the rent in the early 1900s, they might hold a party in their homes, with music and dancing, and sell tickets at the door. Now, a nonprofit group is holding a modern-day ...

The old public housing units in Lawrenceville and Buford, some that date to the 1950s, are on their way out. And Deborah Ingle, for one, won’t miss them. Ingle, who’s lived in public housing in ...

A New Deal-era map showing redlining in part of Chicago. A new analysis finds that lending in majority-black neighborhoods is still just a fraction of the lending activity in white neighborhoods. (Map ...

How did the invention of the modern dome tent change the story of homelessness in LA? And are they a form of “home” for their occupants? While Los Angeles officials work to build more permanent ...