Woodgreen Community Services bought an “atrocious” old rooming house in east-end Toronto (at Queen and Carroll in Riverside), gutted it, and rebuilt it as well-finished transitional housing for homeless people.
At last night’s unveiling (2010.03.04), I was surprised to see a transcription of an interview with an underhoused person written all over the walls… in Erik van Blokland’s ErikRightHand. Effectively used, with actual graphic design deployed on large canvases in unexpected locations, like stairwells. (I got to tell the manager I knew the designer!)