Watch New York City Sink in This Commentary on Affordable Housing

Brooklyn-based artist and designer Ekene Ijeoma has created Wage Islands, an interactive art piece that “expands New York City’s ‘tale of two cities’ by revealing the geographies of access to housing based on wages.”

In the project, a 3D map of the city is submerged in a box filled with black water, showing only the parts of the city that have affordable housing based on a wage of $8.75 and median monthly housing costs from $271 to $4001. Viewers press a button, which increases the wage on the display up to $77, concurrently raising the map out of the water to highlight the severity of the wage gap in relation to housing.

Learn more about the project by watching the video above.

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Cite: Sabrina Santos. "Watch New York City Sink in This Commentary on Affordable Housing" 24 Jan 2016. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/780344/watch-new-york-city-sink-in-this-commentary-on-affordable-housing> ISSN 0719-8884

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