We Say It’s Our Birthday

by Nathan Walpow

So today is our third birthday. On July 9, 2007 (approximately eight million Web years), FourStory debuted with two features and a fiction installment. One article was our first dose of Rebecca Schoenkopf, the beloved CommieGirl; it was called “She’s Glad,” and it was about the bottom falling out of the real estate market, and I accompanied it with a little tiny image of a burning dollar bill, thus setting a course that has caused me to spend countless hours finding illustrations for every feature article, some of which have been really good and some of which have been lame.

The second article was mine, entitled “Coping With Apartment Living.” It was the first half of my housing history. And the chunk of fiction was the beginning of Gary Phillips’s The Underbelly, which ended up a novella which is now being published as a book.

Of course, we’ve evolved since then; our quest for affordable housing for all has grown to include reasonable transportation and a sustainable environment and social justice. Like it says above: supporting fair living conditions for everyone.

But the philosophy is the same: people should be able to live without having to worry about certain basic needs. There are forces that work against everyone fulfilling those needs. How do we overcome those forces?

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