Moody Nolan is donating a home to 11 different cities as part of its Legacy House Project

The firm, cofounded in 1982 by Moody’s father, Curt, and now the largest Black-owned architecture firm in the U.S., moved to refocus its giving on a more tangible outcome. The firm’s architects decided to put their money where their skills are and created the Legacy House project, a planned annual gift that will grant a free home to a family in need in one of the 11 cities where Moody Nolan has offices.The high cost of homeownership is an increasingly large social and political issue that other architects are addressing with a variety of different experimental housing models.  Moody Nolan was compelled to the measure after re-examining the tangible impacts of its annual donations in each of the communities in which it has an office. Housing stocks in the Columbus area are at an all-time low.  The first two homes are in Ohio and Nashville, Tennessee respectively. Each property will be mortgage-free. The firm has said it would like others to take its lead in donating space in the cities they, too, called home.  Fast Company has more on the program here.