“A Room of Ones Own”, a collaboration with @linadiosart for @uptowngrandcentral Gateway to Harlem Project on 125th and Park. This piece offers a little piece of home to those who don’t have the safety or comfort of their own private space to sleep at night, to hang their family photos, to escape the concrete and sirens of the street long enough to unwind from their day. This mural is painted on one of many construction fences guarding empty lots in a city where “housing shortage” has led to rampant rent increases, displacement and gentrification... in a city where landlords warehouse boarded up empty apartments while thousands don’t have homes. This particular construction fence is located in the epicenter of the highest concentration of homeless shelters and drug rehabilitation facilities in NYC, where it costs tax payers up to $35,000 a year to house one person in a shelter where they are likely to wake up with all of their possessions stolen, where they have to be indoors by 10pm or they are locked out for the night, where they have no privacy and no peace of mind, no sense of stability, security, or serenity. And they wonder why people turn to drugs... https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vox.com/platform/amp/2014/5/30/5764096/homeless-shelter-housing-help-solutions