Can You Game Your Way Out of American Housing Injustice?
A new video game uses a choose-your-own adventure format to interrogate the illusion of choice in the U.S. housing system.
In “Dot’s Home,” a young Black woman travels back in time via a magic key to help her family make crucial housing decisions.
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The U.S. housing system contains a morass of hard-to-understand policies past and present that have delivered injustice to many Americans, particularly people of color. But there’s one simple theme that unites these policies: The narrative that the American dream of homeownership can be achieved by anyone through hard work and smart decision-making is a myth.
A new project created by housing and community advocates seeks to communicate this illusion of choice and opportunity in the housing system through a format particularly suited to the subject matter: a choose-your-own-adventure video game.