This seminar prepares students to advocate for exceptional design solutions to the nation’s and world’s housing crisis. It encompasses investigations of the housing predicament in America where record-breaking numbers of working families can no longer afford a decent home because rents have outstripped wages and because natural disasters are adding to housing costs and decreasing its supply. The seminar also encompasses investigations of the global housing predicament where countless wars along with natural disasters have produced over 50 million refugees, asylum-seekers, and internally displaced people worldwide, a few of whom have crossed the southern border into the United States and added to the over half million U.S. citizens who were already homeless. Based upon these investigations, students will collectively undertake graphic representations of these intersecting predicaments, considering their underlying sociocultural, political, economic, and environmental causes. They will go beyond representing existing conditions to focus upon unearthing out-of-the box design solutions for providing millions of both affordable housing and humanitarian housing, identifying innovations that address social issues (e.g., self-governed settlements, flexible living arrangements, circular economies) as well as technical ones (e.g., resilient building design, biogenic materials, individualized prefabricated systems). Then, in a studio-like setting, students will develop a means of communicating what they have learned in order to catalyze action and celebrate exceptional design solutions to the nation’s and world’s housing crisis.