*Kanye West is hoping to help alleviate some of the stressors resulting from California’s housing crisis by building low-income homes with a twist.
The rapper has announced plans to build affordable homes in the San Francisco area that will resemble the homes on Tatooine from the Star Wars universe. The news comes from a Forbes’ Zack O’Malley Greenburg’s profile about Ye’s latest endeavors.
Zack writes:
“Speaking of aliens, if you really want to see how West’s creative process works, then a visit to the Star Wars planet of Tatooine is necessary. Inspired by Luke Skywalker’s childhood home, West has been working with a team to design prefabricated structures that sport the same austere aesthetic, with the goal of deploying them as low-income housing units.”
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Greenburg describes the home as “structures that look like the skeletons of wooden spaceships. They’re the physical prototypes of his concept, each oblong and dozens of feet tall, and West leads me inside each one.”
“He tells me they could be used as living spaces for the homeless, perhaps sunk into the ground with light filtering in through the top. We stand there in silence for several minutes considering the structures before walking back down to his lurking Lamborghini and zooming off into the night,” he writes
The music mogul first announced his plan to build low-income housing on Twitter late last year.
“We’re starting a Yeezy architecture arm called Yeezy home. We’re looking for architects and industrial designers who want to make the world better,” West tweeted.
“West has been working with a team to design prefabricated structures that sport the same austere aesthetic, with the goal of deploying them as low-income housing units,” O’Malley Greenburg writes in the article that appears Forbes’ website, from the publication’s Aug. 31 print issue. “He tells me they could be used as living spaces for the homeless, perhaps sunk into the ground with light filtering in through the top.”
