Bree Davies: “When I saw the conference workshop Innovations in Artist Housing: Inspiration from South America to address the ‘Soho Effect’, I was stoked. … [But] the panel on artist housing did not include a single artist, let alone an artist impacted by — or blamed for — the ‘SoHo Effect.’ Instead, the panel physically resembled many urban planning panels I’ve had to painfully sit through — upper middle class white people who want to talk about housing, mostly in terms of real estate values and sexy urban design. They did not want to talk about the realities just outside the windows of the room I began to feel trapped in.” (For the main web page of the 2019 GIA conference, click here. For the full GIA 2019 conference blog, click here.) – Grantmakers in the Arts