Unwanted Furniture Can Help Us Build Back Better

Looking back, looking ahead. Reflecting. Exhaling. Hoping. Readying for the job ahead. What does this moment, this election, have to do with this picture?

This discarded, plastic office chair that sits outside of a closed down restaurant, below newly built luxury condos in one of the most expensive cities in the country, that’s been ravaged by a housing crisis, Covid, racial and wealth inequality, and diminished economic prospects? Everything.

We must build back better. We are part of the solution.