1. Legal Security of Tenure
Guaranteeing legal protection against forced eviction, harassment, and other threats.
Home Shouldn't Depend on a Job by Amandatron5000Phd, Red Line Service artist
In Home Shouldn’t Depend on a Job, Amandatron5000Phd explores the precarity with which most people in the U.S. live – a paycheck, medical emergency, or other crisis away from houselessness.
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Do the Math by Shay Jones, Red Line Service artist
Jones makes the simple and compelling argument that housing costs the taxpayer less than criminalizing houselessness.
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None of Us Are Home Until All of Us Are Home, Red Line Service artists
None of Us Are Home Until All of Us Are Home: Suggests that a home is as vital as a beating heart, emphasizing that our communal health relies on everyone taking responsibility to ensure housing for all.
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2. Accessibility
Prioritizing disadvantaged groups and ensuring they have full and sustainable access to adequate housing.
A Home Changes Everything by Tina F, Red Line Service artist
Tina F brings to the fore the way housing changes everything. Without it, everything is harder: working, focusing on mental health, focusing on physical well-being, building relationships, and feeling a sense of belonging, to name a few of the barriers that rob people experiencing houselessness of humanity.
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Red Tape, by Dave Scott, Red Line Service artist
Red Tape points to the enormous barriers for people seeking affordable housing in the U.S., including long waitlists, restrictions on the application process, hurdles to qualifying, as well as the proscriptive rules of management, and lack of recourse for subpar accommodations, all of which make it difficult to work, live and thrive.
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Never-Ending Lottery I and Never-Ending Lottery II, by Tina F, Red Line Service artist
In her pendant, Never-Ending Lottery I and Never-Ending Lottery II, Tina F demonstrates the contingent, arbitrary, chance-based system of securing affordable housing in the U.S. It also points to the exhaustion of the search process itself.
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Change the Game by Dave Scott, Red Line Service artist
Change the Game explores the fundamental tension between seeing housing as a real estate, income-generating opportunity, and seeing it as a human right. It asks us to consider the barriers for people seeking housing, and what it would look like if we prioritized people over profit.
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3. Affordability
Keeping the financial costs of housing to a level where the satisfaction of other basic needs is not threatened or compromised.
Diminishing Housing Affordability by Hannah Smaglis
The canvas is divided into sections, each representing the various living expenses individuals need to spread their income between every month. As housing costs increase, it becomes more and more difficult for individuals to afford the other resources that are required for their survival.
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Wheel of Affordable Housing by Efren Paderes, Red Line Service artist
Wheel of Affordable Housing evokes a popular game show to highlight the random, luck-based system of securing affordable housing in the U.S. and the reality of being waitlisted for decades.
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No Affordable Housing is our Discontent/Affordable Housing is our Content by Amandatron5000Phd, Red Line Service artist
Amandatron5000PhD makes a clear, graphic statement of the problem of the lack of affordable housing.
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The Myth of the American Dream by Efren Paderes, Red Line Service artist
Paderes' print points to the government failure to help all people achieve a home.
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Raising Minimum Wage by James Lee Williams, Red Line Service artist
Williams’ Raising Minimum Wage focuses on the fundamental three-fold problem of rising housing costs, gutting of public aid, and stagnation of wages in creating the problem of houselessness in the U.S. Williams suggests that raising the minimum wage is one important step to ending houselessness.
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4. Location
Safe proximity to employment options, health care, food sources, schools, childcare, and other social facilities.
The Centrality of Housing Location by Hannah Smaglis
This piece focuses on the importance of locating housing in an area that provides residents with access to fresh food, health care, and public transportation. As more housing is torn down to erect highways, individuals who rely on public transportation are deprived of access to the essential resources to survive and thrive.
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5. Availability of Services
Facilitating services essential for health, security, and comfort.
Public Toilets are a Right Not a Priviledge, Red Line Service artists
Public Toilets are a Right Not a Privilege: "In cities where public restrooms are scarce or restricted to paying customers, people experiencing houselessness are forced to use unsuitable spaces as restrooms, affecting the health of the entire community. Controlling basic bodily functions of unhoused people dehumanizes us and fails to address the underlying issue."
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6. Habitability
Providing adequate space and protection from cold, damp, heat, rain, wind, and other threats to health and physical safety.
Nature is Not Adequate Shelter, Red Line Service artists
Nature is NOT Adequate Shelter: The trees symbolize the nurturing qualities absent in the systems houseless people encounter, making a powerful plea for housing for all families.
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Homeless and I'm Still More Than Your Statistics by Red Line Service artists
Homeless and I'm Still More than Your Statistics: Highlights the inadequacy of housing for those living with housing insecurity. "On the left, a generic infographic person represents dehumanizing statistics. On the right, a child with autism covers his ears because the assigned housing is loud and unsuitable for his needs."
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7. Cultural Adequacy
Housing construction, building materials, and policies that enable the expression of cultural identity and diversity of housing.
Climate Gentrification by Hannah Smaglis
This piece highlights the climate gentrification crisis within Miami. As floods and other severe weather persist from climate change, many developers are seeking to move their real estate from the shorelines further inland. This push inland threatens to displace many communities across Miami, eroding housing accessibility, cultural adequacy, and security of tenure. This piece symbolizes the strength communities bringin coming together to address this problem.
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Housing is a Right by Sam Caldera, Red Line Service artist
Caldera’s Housing is a Right demonstrates the anger and frustration of being marked racially or culturally, and having to give up cultural traditions, practices, and preferences to be considered qualified for housing.
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