EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is the introduction to “Housing as Intervention: Architecture towards Social Equity,” a 17-essay volume of Architectural Design (AD), guest edited by Next City Vanguard Karen Kubey, that examines how housing projects around the world, and the design processes behind them, might be interventions toward greater social equity. Next City is pleased to welcome Karen as our first guest in a new online seminar series, Thursday, November 1, 2018, at 1:00. Register here to attend the pay-what-you-wish event; if you become a sustaining Next City member, you will receive “Housing as Intervention” as a thank-you gift.