Advocacy

While we design a lot of housing, we are not a housing firm.

Housing has been our vehicle to engage with community-based organizations that are focused on empowering their members; we view our work as in support of these CBOs and organizers. Our pro bono and ‘low bono’ work with these grassroots groups helped launch the firm in 2007 and today we regularly donate hundreds of hours to nonprofit organizations. We also collaborate with university sponsored programs that help educate the next generation of public interest designers; regularly make monetary donations to nonprofits whose mission and values align with our own; and support progressive, mission-driven community benefit campaigns. Our team of diverse professionals can also be found volunteering their time with a variety of organizations that they care deeply about.