Touching on a range of socio-political issues embodied in housing, this issue catalogues promising approaches to housing in the context of growing economic disparities. By exploring innovations in housing - Modernisms central project -it examines architects evolving role in addressing social inequalities. The essays and interviews explore new partnerships and funding schemes that seek support for housing amid public disinvestment, alongside reevaluations of 20th-century housing projects, pointing toward more impactful roles for architects. The issue asks: How can architects of housing leverage evolving funding systems, policies, technologies, research, and collaborations, to better contribute to social equity? How can rethinking architectures recent history in housing advance current modes of production? How can innovations in housing help reshape architectural practice at large? Proposed contributors and featured designers include internationally recognized architects and historians, such as Reinier de Graff and Shigeru Ban, alongside emergent and less well-known voices, including Vo Trong Nghia, Vietnams most prolific contemporary architect, and Marina Tabassum, Bangladeshs leading female architect.