The National Building Museum’s (NBM) new exhibition on affordable housing, "A Better Way Home," highlights six winning proposals of the Housing Affordability Breakthrough Challenge, a $20 million grant competition started by Wells Fargo and Enterprise Community Partners in 2019. Set in a quiet corner of the museum’s ground floor, the exhibition presents these six innovative concepts in a non-hierarchical fashion, pairing themed proposals in three stud-framed, house-like installations within a single gallery. With two each in the categories of construction, financing, and resident services and support, the winning schemes aim to transform affordable housing into outcomes more attainable than abstract. The competition gave each winning team $2.5 million to implement their visions, and dedicated the remaining $5 million to supporting programming, administration, and promotion over the course of the two-year competition.
As part of the NBM’s ongoing initiatives toward equity in the built environment—which also include INTERSECTIONS, a season-long series of workshops and lectures—the exhibition highlights the relationships between social justice and construction by exploring proposals that advance equity through financing and built-in support as well as design solutions.
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