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NOVEMBER 30, 2006 6:30pm, Gund 517     Poster

"Housing Homelessness" -- Alternative options for development and design.
Speakers: Tom Lorello, Executive Director of Shelter, Inc.
       Sister Margaret Leonard, Executive Director of Project Hope
       Stephanie Brown, Executive Director of Homes For Families

Cosponsored with AfHB, SoCA

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NOVEMBER 12, 2006 10am-4pm, Dorchester      

Project HOPE volunteering with BayREP. Volunteers painted as part of renovation of family shelter in Dorchester.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2006 Noon, Room 123       Poster

Chris ScottHanson, President and Founder of Cohousing Resources, LLC.

"Case Study: EcoVillage at JP -- an early stage co-housing development in Jamaica Plain."

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NOVEMBER 8, 2006 6:30pm, Room 109       Poster 

David Smith, President and Founder of Recap Advisors and the Affordable Housing Institute

"The Future of Affordable Housing Subsidies in the United States"

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MAY 18, 2006 6:30pm Room 510          HousingGSD Pizza Party with Professors Lee Cott and Jim Stockard

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MAY 4, 2006 6:30pm at MIT 10-485       DISLOCATION film screening and discussion about the very low income families who were forced to leave Chicago public housing as they were being demolished. Filmmaker-Scholar Sudhir Venkatesh will offer remarks and answer questions. Xavier de Souza Briggs will moderate and offer context. HousingGSD is CoSponsoring. Pizza and Refreshments will be provided. See flier for details

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APRIL 18, 2006 6:30pm  Room 518      SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES IN SOUTH AFRICA: Roundtable Discussion with Larry English, Director, Program Design & Development, Habitat for Humanity International, South Africa. Dr. English is an Architect and Urban Planner. Professor Nicolas Retsinas will moderate. CoSponsored by the Joint Center for Housing Studies.

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APRIL 17, 2006 6:30pm  Room 510     HOUSING DEVELOPMENT AND PUBLIC POLICY ROUNDTABLE WITH AMY DAIN, PIONEER INSTITUTE

Escalating housing prices in the Boston Metro area are affecting the ability of companies to attract talent. In January 2006, the Pioneer Institute and the Rappaport Institute conducted a study on the effects of policy and regulation on housing in Massachusetts. Amy Dain will present an update on the housing study.

"The housing study continues to garner tremendous attention. The Pioneer Institute framed the housing policy debate in Massachusetts and is influencing state and local policymakers. We will continue its work with legislative leadership, the Romney Administration, and interest groups to promote better land use and housing policies."

Housing Regulation Database (good research resource for term papers) www.pioneerinstitute.org/municipalregs

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MONDAY, APRIL 10, 2006 7:30pm  Room 510             

Roundtable on Prefab Housing Possibilities   with David Celento MDesS ’'06 and Josiah Cain MDesS ’'06

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MONDAY, MARCH 22, 2006 6:30pm to 8:00pm       Gund Hall, Room 109 - 48 Quincy Street    MAP

    Presented by GSD Real Estate Development Club and co-sponsored by HousingGSD

Zvi Barzilay

President and Chief Operating Officer of Toll Brothers 

Zvi Barzilay joined Toll Brothers in 1980 and has held various management responsibilities. In 1998 he assumed the positions of President and Chief Operating Officer. Prior to joining Toll Brothers, Zvi was the Chief Center City Planner for the Philadelphia City Planning Commission, was a professor of architecture and urban design, as well as a visiting critic at Princeton University and the University of Pennsylvania Schools of Architecture.

Zvi received a Masters in Urban Design/Real Estate Development from Harvard University and a Bachelor in Architecture from the University of Maryland.

Toll Brothers, Inc. engages in the development, construction, financing, and sale of residential homes in the United States.  Founded 37 years ago, the company is one of the largest home builders and the leading luxury home builder in the United States.  The company currently operates in 20 states and as of October 31, 2005 had built 26,693 homes in 344 communities. Toll Brother's approach is comprehensive, operating its own architectural, engineering, mortgage, title, security monitoring, landscape, lawn maintenance, insurance brokerage, cable television, broadband internet access, component assembly, and manufacturing operations.  Toll Brothers is the only public home builder to have won all three of the most coveted awards in the home building industry: America's Best Builder, National Builder of the Year, and the 1995 National Housing Quality Gold Award.

Pizza and Beer will be served!

Mr.Barzilay's Bio can be found at:    http://www.tollbrothers.com/homesearch/servlet/HomeSearch?app=IRexecbios

For background information and an interesting article, see:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/16/magazine/16brothers.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5035&en=c1ea356d0bb0c161&ex=1215835200

Questions: contact Jack Lin at jlin@gsd.harvard.edu

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MONDAY, MARCH 20, 2006 at 6:30pm       Gund Hall, Portico 123 - 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge    MAP

HAVANA AND ITS HOUSING

FULFILLING THE PROMISE OF THE REVOLUTION 

INTRODUCTION: John Coatsworth – Director, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies and Monroe Gutman Professor of Latin American Affairs

ADDRESS: Leland Cott, Adjunct Professor, Department of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard University Graduate School of Design 

COMMENTS: H. James Brown, Associate of the David Rockefeller Center, former President and CEO of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, former Director of the Joint Center for Housing Studies and Professor at the John F. Kennedy School of Government from 1970 to 1996

Leland Cott is an adjunct professor of urban design at the Harvard GSD where he has taught since 1993.  In addition to teaching design studios and seminars that stress the importance of community development and housing related matters, he has taught four studios, starting in 2000, using sites in Havana, Cuba. Since 2000, he has traveled to Havana more than two dozen times with students and to participate in local events and conferences. Professor Cott has lectured about Havana and its architecture and urban design at many museums, colleges and universities.

As he prepares for a fifth Havana studio, for the fall 2006 semester, he is once again thinking of this city with its strong emphasis on housing and the 1959 revolution's promise that housing is a basic right rather than a privilege. Today all Habaneros have a roof over their head but housing remains scarce and mostly in poor repair. This evening he will speak about the current state of housing in Havana at the neighborhood and superblock scale.  He will also present his ongoing preservation and restoration work in which he is currently engaged at Ernest Hemingway's Havana home, the Finca Vigia.

A reception hosted by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies and catered by Jose's in Cambridge will follow the event. 

Host:    HousingGSD

Co-sponsoring Organizations:

Co-sponsoring Student Groups:

Questions: contact Renu Madan at rmadan@gsd.harvard.edu or Jan Schultheiss at jschulth@gsd.harvard.edu

Other Event Organizers: Kevin Bunker MUP ’07, Hye-Young Chung MArch I ‘07, Simon Ha MDesS ’06, Eliza Harris MUP ’07, Bonnie Hobbs MDesS ’07, Radhika Nair  MUP ’07

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MARCH 9, 2006 6:30pm, Room 518        Walkable Perks: Essential Elements of a Successful Urban Neighborhood

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MARCH 7, 2006 6 - 8pm        Conversations with Practitioners: Housing Policy - KSG: Bell Hall (Top floor of Belfer). All interested students are invited to attend. HousingGSD is co-Sponsoring this KSG THUD event.

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MARCH 1, 2006  6:30pm       Gund Hall, Portico Rooms - 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge   MAP

HousingGSD Presents:

THE GEOGRAPHY OF OPPORTUNITY: RACE AND HOUSING CHOICE IN METROPOLITAN AMERICA 

INTRODUCTION: Alan Altshuler - Dean, Harvard University Graduate School of Design

ADDRESS: Xavier de Souza Briggs, Associate Professor of Sociology and Urban Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

COMMENTS:

Many Americans think of their country as a welcoming "nation of immigrants," yet our communities have a long history of ambivalence toward new arrivals and racial minorities. This is often expressed through segregation by race and income. In “The Geography of Opportunity: Race and Housing Choice in Metropolitan America” (2005), some of the nation's leading analysts and advocates show why segregation persists and how it undermines education, job prospects, and even health and safety for millions of minorities and low-income families. Calling housing "the most important invisible social policy issue in America," the book outlines and agenda to expand the geography of opportunity and assesses the political promise—and limits—of the movement for regional solutions. This project was sponsored by the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University in collaboration with Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies and the Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program. The book is available from online and other retailers, as well as the Brookings Institution Press. To read the introduction and conclusion, go to https://www.brookings.edu/press/books/geographyofopportunity.htm

On Wednesday, Xavier de Souza Briggs will speak about his new book, “The Geography of Opportunity” (Brookings, 2005) and lessons about rebuilding places and lives in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. William C. Apgar Jr. will speak about the changing mortgage banking industry and how nonprime lending is changing (for both good and ill) the geography of access to home loans. M. David Lee will speak to the issues of urban design and aesthetic awareness in housing choices. And Amy Copperman will speak about a fair housing case in Massachusetts which was successful in helping increase access to suburban Section 8 voucher programs.

A reception hosted by the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies will follow the event, and the Harvard Civil Rights Project will have copies of the book for purchase and signing.

Host:  HousingGSD

Co-sponsoring Organizations:

Co-Sponsoring Student Groups:

Special thanks to:  Kevin Bunker MUP ’07, Hye-Young Chung MArch I ‘07, Eliza Harris MUP ’07, Bonnie Hobbs MDesS ’07, Leah Murphy MUP ’07, Chelina Odbert MUP '07

And to:  Michael Grinthal, J.D. HLS ’06, and Elizabeth England, JCHS.

And a very special thanks to our faculty advisors: Leland Cott, Nicolas Retsinas, and James Stockard.

Questions: contact Renu Madan at rmadan@gsd.harvard.edu or Jan Schultheiss at jschulth@gsd.harvard.edu

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DECEMBER 2, 2005 12pm        

Site Visit, Tour, and Conversation with Habitat for Humanity Chief Operating Officer DAVID LOPES and  Architect KEITH GROSS, R.A. at the innovative and monumental, 22-unit Habitat project: 

BLUE HILL PLACE 360 Blue Hill Avenue, Dorchester
http://www.habitatboston.org/projects.html#construction
http://www.hdsarchitecture.com/profile.htm

Co-Sponsored by the GSD Real Estate Club and Architecture for Humanity Boston (AFHB)

If you haven't told us yet, please let us know if you're interested, and we will coordinate rides from
the GSD at 11:00am, returning by 2pm.



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About Us

HousingGSD: is a student group for members of the Graduate School of Design community interested in varying aspects of housing. The group seeks to organize events, exchange information, and connect students with opportunities in the field of housing. 

Faculty Advisors:  Leland Cott, Nicolas Retsinas, and James Stockard.

Co-Chairs:  Erick Guerra MUP ’07 and Kevin Bunker MUP ’07

Active Members:  Hye-Young Chung MArch I ’07, Eliza Harris MUP ’07

2005-2006 Co-Chairs:  Jan Schultheiss, MUP ’06, and Renu Madan, MDesS ’06  2005-2006 Active Members:  Kevin Bunker MUP ’07, Hye-Young Chung MArch I ’07, Simon Ha MDesS ’06, Eliza Harris MUP ’07, Bonnie Hobbs MDesS ’06, Matthew Ladd MUP ’06, Leah Murphy MUP ’07 

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