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Today, we’re thrilled to announce our 2024 Housing Venture Lab cohort! 🎉 These six ventures from across the United States bring innovative programs, technologies and models for addressing some of our most pressing housing challenges. Together, they are improving lives in the short term and building transformative solutions for a better housing future. Join us in welcoming: ⭐ Firm Foundation Community Housing works to end involuntary homelessness by building permanent supportive housing on vacant church land ⭐ FwdSlash connects housing developers, community organizations and Medicaid dollars to address the role of housing in health outcomes ⭐ ROC USA empowers homeowners in manufactured home communities to buy the land under their homes ⭐ BuildCasa is on a mission to build 100,000 homes in existing neighborhoods by leveraging California’s new lot-splitting law ⭐ Appraisal Insights fights racial bias in home appraisals through anti-bias curriculum and creates pathways to recourse for homeowners who receive unfair appraisals ⭐ LadderUp Housing creates rent-to-own opportunities for low- to moderate-income people in the Midwest Congratulations to these six ventures, and thank you to those who make our work possible, including the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Wells Fargo, JPMorganChase, the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, The Ivory Foundation, the Howard and Irene Levine Family Foundation, the Making Waves Foundation, the Ballmer Group, and many more supporters, advisors, coaches, and graduate student fellows. #housinginnovation #affordablehousing #housingequity

We just wrapped up our Housing Venture Lab fall retreat, where cohort members LadderUp Housing, ROC USA, BuildCasa, Appraisal Insights, Firm Foundation Community Housing and FwdSlash came together to meet their coaches, set goals for the next few months of the program, and get to know each other. For the next several months they'll work together and with Terner Labs staff, coaches and advisors to chart a course for growth. We were joined by Terner Labs founder Carol J Galante, Housing Venture Lab alumni Aishatu R. Yusuf, MPA of Impact Justice and Mark Hall of Revalue.io, and other funders and friends. Thank you all for an inspiring start to this year's Housing Venture Lab cohort!

Housing Venture Lab alum Impact Justice matches people recently released from prison with hosts who welcome them into their homes, providing a safe, stable environment in which to rebuilt their lives. More than 100 formerly incarcerated people have found housing through their Homecoming Project, and 100% have left the program with stable housing of their own. See how one Bay Area family built a lasting relationship beyond the project:

We were thrilled to see Housing Venture Lab The Kelsey on PBS News talking about their work for a disability-forward housing future!

Students in architecture, engineering, urban planning, sustainability & more: register for Hack-a-House and help identify new solutions for housing affordability!

Low housing supply, high housing demand and falling real incomes are driving a global housing affordability crisis. Using California as an example, Tyler Pullen (Terner Labs) showed what’s driving the increase in homelessness and housing insecurity around the world. He also shared his ideas on what we can do about it: —     Unlock capacity by changing zoning —     Streamline approvals —     Introduce offsite and industrialised construction —     Implement better procurement models. #BetterBuildingsFaster #MMC #ModernMethodsofConstruction #IndustrialisedConstruction #MakingItHappen #housingaffordability #affordablehousing

Ivory Innovations has begun accepting nominations for the seventh annual Ivory Prize for Housing Affordability. Designed to recognize the most innovative solutions to housing affordability challenges, the Prize is a nationally revered honor. Self nominations are accepted. Nominations are open now until December 6, 2024. Nominate or learn more about the Ivory Prize here: https://lnkd.in/gvFhTcwU #IvoryPrize2025

Happy fourth birthday to Housing Venture Lab alum Trust Neighborhoods! In 2020, the organization piloted the mixed-income neighborhood trust (MINT), a new tool for protecting neighborhoods from raising rents, preserving affordability and preventing displacement. MINTs are able to purchase and protect more housing than traditional community land trusts, requiring less capital up front and leveraging income from market-rate properties for long-term sustainability. Today, 450 people live in mixed-income neighborhood trusts, including people like Ana Ruth Ramirez, a single mother in East Boston who found stable housing after fighting eviction for 8 years. Meet more MINT residents in Trust Neighborhoods’ latest newsletter:

We're partnering with Ivory Innovations and Terner Center for Housing Innovation to spread the word about Hack-A-House, a 24-hour virtual hackathon focused on identifying innovative solutions to improve housing affordability 💡 🗓 Dates: September 27-28, 2024 💻 Format: Fully virtual 🏆 Prizes: Over $12,000 👥 Teams: Up to 5 students or compete individually 🌟 Hosted by Ivory Innovations in partnership with Columbia University, University of Arizona, Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies, University of Denver, University of Utah, and University of California, Berkeley #HackAHouse2024 #HousingAffordability

Our Managing Director Ben Metcalf talked with filmmakers Nate Houghteling & Yoav Attias for their new film Fault Lines, which explores the housing crisis through the stories of Bay Area residents: