Aug 24, 2020
Speakers: Eugene Jones, President & CEO, Atlanta Housing Authority Richard Gerwitz, Managing Director and Co-Head, Citi Community Capital Jacqueline Waggoner, VP and Market Leader, Southern California, Enterprise Community Partners Moderator: Sasha Perigo, Freelance Writer, Housing and Homelessness 5 Key Takeaways 1. Health and housing go hand in hand: Covid-19 has exposed the fissures of America’s…
Aug 24, 2020
Speakers: Jonathan Woetzel, Director, McKinsey Global Institute Conor Dougherty, Author, Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America and Housing and Economics Reporter, The New York Times 4 Key Takeaways 1. The problem with housing in California is it costs too much, and there isn‘t enough of it, particularly for people who aren‘t wealthy, says Conor…
Aug 24, 2020
Speakers: Albus Brooks, VP Milender White, Former City Councilman Denver Issi Romem, Principal and Founder, MetroSight Craig Sauvé, City Councillor & Special Advisor, City of Montréal Moderator: Mariela Alfonzo, Founder & CEO, State of Place 5 Key Takeaways 1. The housing sector is one of the main economic drivers for inequality. Housing is key to…
Aug 24, 2020
Speakers: Angela Hurlock, Chair, Chicago Housing Authority Daffney Moore, Chief Opportunity Zone Officer, St. Louis Development Corporation Maria Vassilakou, Advisor and Advocate for Cities, Entrepreneur Moderator: Heather Way, Clinical Professor and Director, ECDC, University of Texas Austin Law School 5 Key Takeways 1. The United States has never come close to achieving the vision of…
Aug 24, 2020
Speakers: Tatiana Bilbao, Principal, Tatiana Bilbao ESTUDIO Yonatan Cohen, Partner, Architecture, Mosaic Steffan Jones, Vice President, Innovation, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation Amaury Lamarche, Chief Platform Officer – Smart Home, ENGIE Marianthi Tatari, Associate Director & Senior Architect, UNStudio Moderator: Greg Lindsay, Director of Applied Research, NewCities 5 Key Takeaways 1. A participatory, and inclusive…
Aug 24, 2020
Speakers: Kristen Jeffers, Founder and Editor-in-Chief, The Black Urbanist Elizabeth Kneebone, Research Director, Terner Center for Housing Innovation, UC Berkeley June Williamson, Chair and Associate Professor, Bernard & Anne Spitzer School of Architecture, City College of New York Moderator: Diana Lind, Author & Executive Director, Arts & Business Council for Greater Philadelphia 5 Key Takeaways…
Aug 24, 2020
Speakers: Daryl J. Carter, Founder, Chairman and CEO, Avanath Capital Management, LLC Leilani Farha, Global Director, The Shift Sacajawea Hall, Operations and CLT Director, Cooperation Jackson Tara Raghuveer, Homes Guarantee Campaign Director, People‘s Action/ Director, KC Tenants Moderator: Ian Volner, Writer, Architecture, Harper‘s, Wall Street Journal 4 Key Takeaways 1. The housing crisis, only accelerated…
Aug 13, 2020
The Millennial generation may be the most consequential for North American cities since the Baby Boomers 75 years ago. They are certainly the most misunderstood. For more than a decade, their lifestyle preferences have been perceived as contrarian compared to their parents, whether that meant living at home, forgoing a driver’s license, or choosing to…
Aug 13, 2020
Albus Brooks is a former two-term Denver City Council member for District 9 and former City Council President. Today, he is Vice President of Strategy and Business Development for Milender White, a Development and Construction company operating in Colorado and Southern California. This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity. NewCities: On top of…
Jun 05, 2020
A generation ago many British city centres were dreary places. Now, they are among the most desirable areas to live. What has changed? Take a walk through the centres of Manchester, Liverpool or Birmingham and you will see smart new apartments, office blocks, and ever-present cranes building still more. Until lockdown, at street-level you would…
Jun 05, 2020
There’s been a profound generational shift in attitudes towards urban living. Today’s young adults are much more likely than those of previous decades to choose to live in denser, close-in urban neighborhoods. We traced this trend in our 2014 City Observatory report, the Young and Restless, which found a growing relative preference of well-educated young…
Jun 05, 2020
Not since the rise of the Driverless Car bubble have I seen so many transport experts staring into their crystal balls, peering through the mists at what the future might hold. As COVID19 changes the way we live, work and learn at a speed and scale unprecedented in living memory, it is no surprise that…
