2022 Spring Issue - 112

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RON TERWILLIGER
Attainable
Housing for
All
ULI's Terwilliger Center for Housing
launches three new initiatives to fulfill
the Institute's global mission priority.
ULI's decision to make housing a
global mission priority promises to make
2022 among my most exciting years as a
member, including my time as ULI chair
in 2007 when we launched the Institute's
Terwilliger Center for Housing.
Over the years, I am grateful to have had
the opportunity to work with many outstanding
organizations delivering a variety
of housing solutions throughout the United
States and around the globe. The assets
that ULI brings to land use and development
conversations-thought leadership,
nonpartisan analysis, broad member
expertise and influential networks, and
hard-earned reputational capital-are
exactly the kinds of resources that cities
around the world need to tackle today's
most difficult housing challenges, and I
am proud to be a part of it.
In the United States, the Terwilliger
Center has launched three components
of the Attainable Housing for All mission
priority in partnership with ULI members
and district councils: 1) a series of study
panels addressing local housing needs in
at least 10 cities over the next two years,
2) a new district council housing exchange
that provides enhanced support for the
Institute's most active local housing product
councils and task forces, and 3) a
virtual housing development hub bringing
together the most timely and relevant
information and publications from ULI and
beyond addressing barriers to and opportunities
in housing.
Among the most effective tools that
ULI offers to cities facing development
challenges are study panels: Advisory
Services and technical assistance panels.
Leveraging the deep experience and expertise
of ULI members, study panels offer
opportunities to convene national experts
and local stakeholders to assist cities in
answering critical land use, policy, and
development questions.
The Terwilliger Center is working closely
with numerous ULI district councils to
design study panels focused on a variety
of issues related to advancing housing
production, attainability, and equity.
Potential focus areas include developing
and amending city housing affordability
plans, creating plans to address housing
at risk from climate-related flooding,
enabling housing production and economic
development without displacement,
and redeveloping aging commercial
corridors to incorporate more uses and
enhanced livability, including adding
mixed-income housing.
Ron Terwilliger
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District councils are where the rubber
meets the road in ULI housing conversations.
Most housing development policies
and decisions are made locally, and local
ULI housing product councils, committees,
task forces, and so on are already deeply
involved in local housing planning, policy,
and development efforts. The Institute's
new district council housing exchange will
connect these local ULI groups so that
they can more effectively share information
and advice on an ongoing basis, will provide
enhanced support from the Terwilliger
Center team, and will provide quarterly
opportunities for groups to present their
work and receive feedback from larger,
curated ULI audiences.
On the thought leadership side, the
Institute has produced an enormous
amount of housing-related content in just
the last decade. In addition to the many
Terwilliger Center reports that are in circulation,
district councils have produced
housing research and publications with
relevance far beyond their local context.
The Terwilliger Center is working to collect
this work and present it in a new
housing development resource hub that
will enhance users' ability to identify the
high-quality information most relevant to
their needs. In addition, the hub will point
users to well-respected, non-ULI housing
resources that focus on important issue
areas that are not fully addressed in ULI
materials.
ULI is pursuing exciting work outside
the United States as well. I am particularly
looking forward to the Institute's launch
of a new Asia Pacific housing center in the
coming months, as well as the first Asia
Pacific edition of ULI's Home Attainability
Index that the Terwilliger Center originally
launched in the United States in 2020. The
difficult housing challenges that cities face
today are both global and local, and ULI's
footprint and membership uniquely position
the Institute to assist in meeting these
challenges. I am both proud and grateful
that the Terwilliger Center and I will play
vital roles in this effort. UL
RON TERWILLIGER is a ULI Key Leader and chairman of
Terwilliger Pappas Multifamily Properties.
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