“Make Room,” a nationwide campaign which aims to help solve the rental affordability crisis in America, has launched with the release of footage from the first of a series of private living room performances called “Concerts for the 1st.”
The “1st” refers to the 1st of the month when housing rent is due. To kick off the “Make Room” initiative, the Duarte family–whose rent eats up about half of their monthly income–hosted singer Carly Rae Jepsen in Los Angeles for the first of the “1st” concerts.
Over the coming months, the series will raise awareness about the rental affordability crisis with top musical acts performing in living rooms across the country.
Enterprise Community Partners Inc. is the sponsoring partner of the Make Room campaign, with the collaboration and resources of partners such as the MacArthur Foundation. Matter Unlimited is the creative agency of record for Enterprise Community Partners Inc. Together they have developed the “Make Room” campaign and built the platform on which “Concerts for the 1st” lives.
Matter Unlimited’s production partner for the project is @radical.media. Director Paul Bozymowski captures the intimate performances and interviewing the host families and artists to create the content series.
One in four of the 42 million U.S. renter households in America spend at least half of their income on rent, living one paycheck away from homelessness. Make Room is designed to spark a national conversation, raise issue awareness and help build a path toward solutions.