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1 week agoArtist Housing Advocates Eye a 'Once-in-100-Year' Opportunity | KQED
Permanently affordable artist housing is framed as essential to preserving the Bay Area’s cultural identity amid major wealth transfers.
He had just sold his fashion brand, Via Vai, after which he spent four years growing roses at his home in Uruguay. Born into a family of Syrian immigrants and with a Sephardic Jewish surname, those four years were enough to generate a new idea. On the one hand, he wanted to build a luxury residential project in that wasteland, and, on the other, he wanted to attract global talent.