Roundtable Report: Arts, Culture and Public Housing Communities

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To explore the role of arts and culture in transforming public housing communities, NOCD-NY convened a diverse range of residents, resident advocates, tenant leaders, artists, cultural institutions, community organizations, elected officials and staff, city agencies, and funders for a roundtable in July 2015. Drawing on the roundtable discussion and interviews carried out in the field, we generated a preliminary Creative Transformation: Arts, Culture and Public Housing Communities report to:

  • Showcase exemplary partnerships that illustrated equitable, long-term approaches

  • Identify barriers and challenges

  • Develop recommendations and discuss how to move them into action

  • Identify pilot project(s) that could be supported

  • Build and strengthen relationships among participants

The roundtable's groundwork has advanced a deeper initiative that involved 17 citywide partner projects to include the voices of residents, artists and activists, thanks to support from The New York City Cultural Agenda Fund in The New York Community Trust.

Updated in 2019, our Creative Transformations: Stories, Learnings, and Recommendations to Support Arts, Culture, and Public Housing Communities report accounts for additional learnings from partner projects from 2017 to now.

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