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In Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, Studio Libeskind’s Atrium at Sumner project sits on formerly vacant land at the edge of a public housing complex.

For the firm’s founder, this project was a personal one: Architect Daniel Libeskind grew up in a historic affordable housing development in the Bronx. “I always associate social and public housing with something fantastic,” he says. A large atrium brings light deep into the interior.

In Boston, MASS Design Group’s J. J. Carroll Apartments used a low-income housing tax credit to transform an outdated senior-housing complex.

The outdoor circulation areas at LOHA’s Sun King development in Los Angeles—combined with operable windows and a blazing paint job—prevent the project from being “a generic box,” its architect says, while ensuring the project lives up to its name.