Helen Grace, Narelle Jubelin & Sherre DeLys: The Housing Question

Framed through Friedrich Engels’ 1872 observation that adequate housing for the masses is the only way to stave off anti-bourgeois revolution, ‘The Housing Question’, curated by Julie Ewington, reflects the political urgencies of the contemporary global housing crisis while weighing up the historical losses and gains of more than 150 years of socialism, activism and architectural innovation.

With palpable tension, this is realised as a series of stand-offs of political substance versus the seductions of affluence and style. To this end, core themes are