Architects should see themselves as the representatives of the community in the building process and not simply as an agent of developers, argues low-cost housing specialist Victor Body-Lawson in this interview. More about "The best tool for empowering people is through affordable housing" says architect Victor Body-Lawson
Dezeen has teamed up with MAD Architects for a series of talks on social housing. In the first talk, MAD founder Ma Yansong discusses the studio's Baiziwan project in Beijing. More about Watch a live talk with MAD Architects about its first social housing project in China
In this week's comments update, readers are talking about the UK government's proposal to reintroduce imperial measurements and other top stories. More about Commenter calls proposal to reintroduce imperial measurements to UK "utter madness"
Architecture studio MAD has completed its first social housing development, which consists of 12 residential buildings in Beijing connected by raised walkways and a "floating park". More about MAD aims to "challenge the status quo" with first social housing project
Split-level bedrooms and natural finishes characterise this apartment complex in Cancún, Mexico, by Kiltro Polaris, WEWI, and JC Arquitectura. More about Cancún apartment building is designed for workers and tourists to coexist
ERA Architects has refurbished a postwar social housing building in Hamilton, Ontario, making it the largest residential building in the world to achieve Passivhaus EnerPHit certification. More about Tower in Ontario becomes world's tallest retrofitted Passivhaus structure
Spanish studio Peris+Toral Arquitectes has completed an 85-unit social housing project in Barcelona, featuring a modular timber framework and flexible living spaces. More about Peris+Toral Arquitectes completes Spain's largest timber-framed residential building
Architecture studio Barreca & La Varra has designed a social housing project for Milan called L'Innesto, which will be carbon-neutral and encourage community self-management through shared spaces. More about Milan's L'Innesto development to provide net-zero social housing
Peter Barber Architects has rejuvenated the post-war Kiln Place social housing estate in London and created 15 new homes. More about Peter Barber Architects revamps and densifies London social housing estate
The McGrath Road housing project by Peter Barber Architects in east London has won this year's RIBA Neave Brown Award for Housing 2021. More about Peter Barber Architects' "intelligent, dynamic and original" McGrath Road named UK's best affordable housing scheme
Italian architect Stefano Boeri has completed the plant-covered Trudo Vertical Forest social housing tower in Eindhoven. More about Stefano Boeri covers social housing tower with 10,000 plants
Architecture firm Barrault Pressacco used biomaterials including wood and hempcrete to construct this mixed-use building that references traditional Parisian apartment blocks. More about Barrault Pressacco uses hempcrete to create social housing in Paris
London studio Peter Barber Architects has created a terrace of social housing for Greenwich council on a tight site in south London that was previously occupied by garages. More about Peter Barber Architects creates terrace of social housing on "undevelopable" London site
We should be applauding social housing projects, but resist the rhetoric that sees council housing as the only solution to the housing crisis, says Owen Hopkins. More about The left "fetishises council housing with the same conviction as the right fetishises traditional styles"
Zellige is a social housing complex in Nantes, France, designed in a collaboration between French architecture studios Tectône and Tact Architectes. More about Spiral staircase twists through Zellige apartment complex by Tectône and Tact Architectes
O4A is a Paris development with a primary school, sports centre and two tower blocks of social housing by architecture studios Brisac Gonzalez and Antoine Régnault. More about Irregular balconies surround social housing stacked over school in Paris
UK architectural design standards were the talk of the town this week thanks to Mikhail Riches' Stirling Prize win. We're celebrating with new Pinterest boards on Passivhaus projects, social housing schemes and British architecture. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest › More about Get to know Passivhaus design with Stirling Prize winner-inspired Pinterest boards
The Passivhaus and high-density Goldsmith Street social housing scheme designed by Mikhail Riches with Cathy Hawley has been awarded the RIBA Stirling Prize 2019. More about Mikhail Riches' Goldsmith Street social housing wins Stirling Prize 2019
Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects has built social housing in Los Angeles featuring a green roof, herb garden, a community centre and retail spaces to foster wellness and community for those in need. More about LOHA tops MLK1101 housing for Los Angeles' homeless with sloped green roof
Goldsmith Street is a Passivhaus and high-density social housing scheme by Mikhail Riches in Norwich, England, which is shortlisted for this year's Stirling Prize. More about Mikhail Riches creates energy-efficient terraced streets as social housing in Norwich