Graduate Students: HUD’s Office of Policy Development and Research announces the second annual Innovation in Affordable Housing Student Design and Planning Competition!

Graduate Students: HUD’s Office of Policy Development and Research announces the second annual Innovation in Affordable Housing Student Design and Planning Competition!

HUD’s Office of Policy Development and Research


The competition is sponsored by HUD’s Office of Policy Development and Research. Visit the About the Competition page for the 2015 guidelines and design criteria.

Multidisciplinary teams must be comprised of a minimum of three students and a maximum of five, plus one faculty advisor. Each team must have members representing three different graduate level programs; one must be from an architectural or design-related program, and one must be from a non-architectural program. There are many acceptable permutations; here is one example for clarity:

  • 2 M. Architecture candidates
  • 1 M. Planning or Public Policy candidate
  • 2 MBA candidates

Goals

  • Encourage research and innovation to create high-quality affordable housing that strengthens the social and physical fabric of low- and moderate-income communities and neighborhoods.
  • Raise practitioner and future practitioner capacity to produce more livable and sustainable housing for low- and moderate-income people.
  • Foster cross-cutting team-work within the design and community development process.

Important Dates:

December 18, 2014: Deadline for teams to register
December 19, 2014: Phase I questions released (site and Housing Authority information)
February 9, 2015: Deadline for teams to submit Phase l solution
February 20, 2015: Finalists announced; Phase ll released
March 18, 2015: Site visit for finalists 
April, 2015: Final jury and winners announced at HUD headquarters in Washington, DC (TBD)

Prizes:

$20,000 to the winning team
$10,000 to the runner-up

Form a Team. Create a Plan. Make a Real-World Impact. Sign up to receive competition updates as they become available.

Posted November 20, 2014



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