This project was funded by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.

Founded in 1956, the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts makes project-based grants to individuals and organizations and produces public programs to foster the development and exchange of diverse and challenging ideas about architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society.

Thank you to Joan Byron, Andrew Coamey, Lynn Gernert, Desi Glazier, Ivan Gonzalez, Benjamin Kracauer, Charles King, Cleven Jones, Annette Lacoot-Hylton, Robert Salzman, Virginia Shubert, Lynn Walker, Alan Wanzenberg, and Robert Zagaroli for sharing thoughts and archives. To current and past Housing Works employees, including Juan Astasio, Diana Boric, Rolando Campos, Daniel Fleischman, Andrew Greene, Elizabeth Koke, Elizabeth Mota, Silas Munro, Amanda O'Callaghan, Ray-Shon Pullum, Valerie Reyes-Jimenez, Tracy Richotte, Kenneth Robinson, Linney Smith, Molly Quinn, and David Thorpe.

Gavin Browning wishes to thank Amy Adler, Alejandro Andújar, Jason Baumann, George and Margie Browning, Felix Burrichter, Katherine Carl, Robert Clarida, Paul Dallas, Aliza Dzik, Rebecca Federman, Sarah Fan, Pedro Gonçalves, Andrés Jaque, Ted Kerr, Laura Kurgan, Lisa Looye, Andrea Marpillero-Colomina, Iván López Munuera, Ginger Nelson, Mari Putri, Ellen Gordon Reeves, Hilary Sample, Amy Scholder, Anni Seligmann, Cassim Shepard, Varick Shute, Jeroen Sikma, Minyoung Son, and Mabel O. Wilson.

For images and video, thank you to Alan Barnett, Gary Deam, Prisca Edwards, Scott Korn, Brian Rose, Valerie Reyes-Jimenez, and James Wentzy. For texts, thank you to SAGE Publications, Inc., Princeton Architectural Press, Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law, and POZ Magazine.

Gavin Browning is Director of Public Programs and Engagement at Columbia University School of the Arts. Previously, he was Director of Events and Public Programs at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. He served as the first director of Studio-X New York, and worked at the independent publishers Verso and The New Press. He co-wrote and produced the animated short, The Commons (2009), and he edited the books The Studio-X New York Guide (2010) and Group Efforts: Changing Public Space (2015). He holds a BA in English from The New School and an MS in Urban Planning from Columbia University.

Laura Hanna is a filmmaker and organizer. She is director of Williams, Gattis, Hammer, and James, four long-form films about death row inmates in Indiana, Delaware, Virginia, and Pennsylvania, respectively. She created a short film with Birgitta Jonsdottir for Jeremy Hammond called Wikileaks and the War on Whistleblowers, and produced The American Dream for Creative Time Reports. She codirected the Perpetual Peace Project, a series installed at the New Museum, the Institute for Contemporary Art, and the Utrecht Library. In 2008, she made A Housing Urbanism Made of Waste, now part of MoMA's permanent collection, and was commissioned to produce a series of short films for the Venice Biennale of Architecture with Kyong Park and Ted Smith. She has produced and directed shorts for the Nation, the New Press, SEIU, the Art Review, OR Books, the New School, and the Slought Foundation.

This project originated as an exhibition, "Living Room: Housing Works Builds Housing," that was displayed April 26–28, 2012 at the Metropolitan Pavilion in New York City. It was researched and produced by Juan Astasio, Gavin Browning, Aliza Dzik, Greta Hansen, Jenna Kaminsky, Karen Kubey (who wrote versions of text that appears in gray), and Daniel Quinn.