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I participated in a research project with Families United for Racial & Economic Equality (FUREE) assessing living conditions at the Gowanus Houses in Downtown Brooklyn, home to roughly 1,700 families across four blocks bordering Boerum Hill and Park Slope. Six months later, the New York Daily News reported on the crisis we had documented—broken pipes, peeling paint, heatless apartments, vermin, stalled elevators, structural damage, and lead exposure affecting residents, including children and pregnant women. As a former resident, the research confirmed what I witnessed growing up there. This body of work, developed during my residency at the Vermont Studio Center, is dedicated to the residents of the Gowanus Houses. Gowanus: The Last Sanctuary, essay.  Gowanus the last sanctuary, Essay.

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