When the Tenant Association at Smith Houses received only $384,958 of FEMA funding to repair two campus playgrounds after Superstorm Sandy, they didn’t back down from their dream of an updated, multigenerational play space for their community. Instead, they organized. Strong resident voices led the way in coordinating city and state agencies. By raising an additional $500K from state agency DASNY and reclaiming historical amenity space from New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) sanitation, an ambitious adventure in bringing together two separate contractors, funded by two different government agencies—all under the direction of one landscape architect—resulted in a larger, brighter, natural play space that ushers in a new
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