Safe, affordable, and stable housing is an important protective factor against both sexual violence perpetration and victimization. Housing instability can affect anyone in our community, but especially those who have had trauma or violence as part of their life history. In 2023, alongside the continued global pandemic, the U.S. witnessed a troubling increase in...
Although summer is often a quiet time at Red Cloud, this month brought the sounds of new construction to campus. With the support of generous partners and supporters from across the country, Red Cloud has officially begun to build new housing on its main campus, designed specifically for faculty and staff. According to Executive Vice President Robert Brave Heart Sr...
More than 70,000 evictions have been filed in cities across the South since March 15, 2020, the day much of the country issued shelter-in-place orders to curb the spread of COVID-19. A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention moratorium intended to keep people housed through the pandemic hasn’t been a catchall solution nor has it entirely prevented landlords...
Adrianne Brave Heart has worked at the heart of Red Cloud’s advancement efforts for over five years. She also sends her daughter to Red Cloud’s elementary school, because she believes in the education it provides. But there was a moment when she thought she might have to leave Red Cloud behind. Because they couldn’t find better housing options, she and her husband...
Baquee Sabur’s life changed when he had to spend a night sleeping under a Houston overpass. “It was horrible,” Sabur said. “Every car that pounces on there, you hear it. It’s a dark place. You want to fall asleep, but you don’t know if anyone’s going to approach you. It’s dirty, and you’re hanging out where bugs...
Innovative projects across the US are demonstrating the power of housing to go well beyond providing places for people to live. As Karen Kubey writes in Housing as Intervention: Architecture towards Social Equity, “Housing projects, and the design processes behind them, can be interventions towards greater social equity,” providing “fair access to...
Brian Phillips, Founding Principal, Interface Studio ArchitectsBrian is founding Principal of ISA, and serves as Creative Director across the design and research efforts of the firm. He was awarded a 2011 Pew Fellowship in the Arts, and was named an Emerging Voice by the Architectural League of New York in 2015. ISA’s work has been featured in ARCHITECT...
Inspiring Design: Building Equity with Housing and Parks
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These four episodes are part of a series on housing for prevention that we co-created with the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence. Our organizations collaborate on an initiative that supports advocates in meeting the housing needs of survivors. And, in reflecting on that work together, we became eager to talk about the ways that housing is also a tool for...
Safe, affordable, and stable housing is an important protective factor against both sexual violence perpetration and victimization. For SAAM 2024 we are focusing on building connected communities to prevent sexual abuse, assault, and harassment. Housing instability can affect anyone in our community, but especially those who have had trauma or violence as part of...