Informational pamphlet / poster about the risks of predatory equity and how to prevent this from happening again in the future.
2009

Printed, graphic pamphlet with grey background, black serpent constricting two red high-rise housing buildings with protesters at the bottom. Opens to an eye catching informational material accompanied with cartoons which accompany each individual point made.

Purchased

: Made in conjunction with graphic artists through Centre for Urban Pedagogy’s Public Access Design Fellowship and advocacy communities. Two projects are selected and then finalised by the jury and the design fellow is matched with the corresponding cause. CUP provides support in design and production for the four- six month projects. Each project is an educational tool and a display of design. The production costs of editing and printing are covered by CUP. Additionally, the advocacy partners involved are each given 1,000 copies to distribute amongst their constituents.

The pamphlet provides tenants, advocates and policy makers with information about private equity and large bank loans which bought vast amounts of affordable public housing which threatened the homes of over 65,000 families. The crash meant that the loans could not be paid which ensured Foreclosure on the buildings. This pamphlet acts as a means of preparing the people at risk with information about the basic financial mechanics of predatory equity and how to prevent it in the next economic boom.

Designed by MTWTF design studio.

CD.20-2021