UPCOMING EVENTS:

ULI St. Louis WLI Regional Summit, Equity in Land Use & Leadership

Part 2: Analysis

September 16, 2020
3:30-5:00 PM CDT
Free for ULI Members

Building on the acknowledgments discussed at the August 12 session, we will dive into data collection, the types of data collected, measurements of success, and ultimately drawing conclusions from and using the data.

Part 3: Action

October 29, 2020
3:30-5:00 PM CDT
Free for ULI Members

What can we, as land use professionals, do to further efforts or push harder for equitable development and, ultimately, an equitable society?

ULI Washington, ULI New York, ULI Philadelphia, ULI Boston: Know Your Price – A Conversation with Dr. Andre Perry

November 10, 2020
12:00-1:30 PM EST

Join ULI District Councils Washington, New York, Philadelphia, and Boston for a conversation with Dr. Andre Perry, Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and author of Know Your Price: Valuing Black Lives and Property in America’s Black Cities. Using both quantitative research and his own life story, Dr. Perry explores the social and economic consequences of systemic racism that have de-valued Black people, their assets, and communities. The estimated $150 billion in lost equity fuels persistent racial wealth disparities and impacts public coffers. Know Your Price establishes a new paradigm for valuing and investing in Black communities with practical solutions for policy makers and city builders.

ULI Los Angeles: Diversity Mixer in partnership with USC Ross Minority Program in Real Estate

November 10, 2020
6:00-7:30 PM PST

Join us in celebrating the diversity of real estate and land-use professionals in Los Angeles. Our virtual happy hour will include a blend of informal networking and presentations from industry peers who are actively engaged as ULI Committee leaders. You’ll learn about extensive opportunities to benefit from engaging content and a global network of professional peers.

ULI Atlanta and ULI Charlotte: Beyond Unconscious Bias

November 11, 2020
9:00-11:00 AM EST
Free for ULI Members

As part of its diversity, equity and inclusion initiative, ULI Atlanta and ULI Charlotte is offering a training session to support its leadership and members to deepen your learning and collective approach to race, racism, equity and social justice. Participants will develop a common language, increase their comfort level explicitly naming and talking about race, racism, bias and de-biasing. We believe these are critical skills to effectively lead in our industry and community. The 90-minute session will describe unconscious bias in the context of structural inequities and provides evidence-based strategies on how to de-bias.

ULI Northwest Arkansas: The Color of Law

November 19, 2020
11:00 AM-12:00 PM CST

Join ULI Northwest Arkansas and partner ULI District Councils from throughout the Central Region for a conversation with Richard Rothstein, author of The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America.

Going back to the late 19th century, the author uncovers a policy of de jure segregation in virtually every presidential administration. This “powerful and disturbing history” exposes how American governments deliberately imposed racial segregation on metropolitan areas nationwide.

ULI Cincinnati: The Color of Law

December 2, 2020
5:30-7:00 PM EST

ULI Cincinnati’s Real Estate Accelerator Lab (REAL) and AIA Cincinnati’s Urban Design Committee will host celebrated author Richard Rothstein in a virtual discussion of his book The Color of Law.

Joining Rothstein in this program are two local experts to discuss the impact of racist housing policies in greater Cincinnati. Fritz Casey-Leininger, Ph.D., Associate Professor Emeritus in the University of Cincinnati Department of History, will provide an overview of how government policies affected 20th century residential development in Cincinnati. Alona Ballard, Education Outreach Manager for Housing Opportunities Made Equal of Greater Cincinnati, explores current efforts to undo these destructive policies.

ULI Philadelphia: DEI Framework for Action

In September 2020, ULI Philadelphia released its Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Framework for Action. The purpose of the document is to create a measurable impact in addressing diversity, equity and inclusion within the ULI Philadelphia organization and within real estate as an industry as well as positively impacting our community by addressing subject matters related to race and real estate.

ULI Boston: Pathways to Inclusion Initiative Leaders

ULI Boston is pleased to introduce Michael Fergus and Marty Jones as our new Pathways to Inclusion Initiative Leaders. The Pathways to Inclusion Initiative was developed as a partnership between the Builders of Color Coalition and African-American Real Estate Professionals New England (AAREP) and is designed to broaden ULI membership and expand the professional networks of mid-career and senior-level minority developers and land use professionals in the Boston metro area.

ULI Memphis: 21 Day Equitable Development Challenge

RegionSmart and ULI Memphis are committed to be a catalyst for local change in our industry and in our diverse communities. To start this work, we have created a 21-Day Challenge. The goal is to spend time both personally reflecting and in groups to identify real actions we can take individually, at our company/organization, and as a community to address the inequities in the real estate industry.

ULI Utah: Diversity, Inclusion, and Social Equity in Land Use

Session 1: Past-Present-Future; Lessons We Can Learn from our Industry’s Past as We Build a More Equitable Future
September 29, 2020

Join us for a presentation on the history of residential segregation locally, including the practice of redlining. Neighborhoods and their residents that were redlined continue to suffer the effects of disinvestment and discrimination long after these government policies were repealed. Presenters will discuss industry trends and the initiatives we can undertake together to enhance equality in real estate.

Session 2: Inclusive Leadership: How the Best Leaders Build Diverse and Winning Teams
October 1, 2020

As our Spaces and workforces diversify, our leadership skills need to evolve. Leaders need new skills that inspire their current and future workforce. The inclusive leader inspires higher team performance, greater innovation, more equitable cultures, and more engaged community partners. This training session will have a specific focus on leadership mindset and communication skills.

ULI Los Angeles: State of the City 3.0 – Real Estate and Land-Use Policies That Have Divided Los Angeles – A Historic Context and Path Forward

September 29, 2020

ULI State of the City 3.0 will be “Real Estate and Land-Use Policies That Have Divided Los Angeles – A Historic Context and a Path Forward.”   With this session, the State of the City topic turns to history to understand Los Angeles racial inequities fostered by urban planning and development decision-making.  We hope this discussion will serve as a catalyst to forge a way forward by acknowledging the adoption of racial inequitable systems that shaped Los Angeles and perpetuated systemic racism thru land use policy.

ULI Cincinnati: Exploring our Histories – Race and Development

September 29, 2020

During this workshop, Design Impact will share “People’s History”, a facilitation tool used with a Madisonville group to start a different conversation about the neighborhood’s past and current development activities. This tool acknowledges the ways in which racists policies and practices shaped our city, communities. and experiences.

ULI Virginia: Equitable Housing Panel Discussion Hosted by WLI

September 23, 2020

Women’s Leadership Initiative (WLI) presents a panel discussion on equitable housing featuring women leaders in the national real estate industry. The panel will discuss topics pertaining to improving equitable housing, including innovative methods, developments, best policies, challenges, opportunities, and possibilities for working together to improve equitable housing.

ULI Arizona: Putting the Lens on Race and Land Use Inequity in Arizona

September 22, 2020

Throughout the United States, racial segregation was institutionalized by a series of explicit federal, state and local land use policies and lending regulations. Phoenix and Tucson, despite being relatively young cities, did not escape this shameful history. Join ULI Arizona as we take a close look at the legacy of these policies in the evolution of our neighborhoods, and the enduring effects this segregation has had on disparate wealth creation, public health and education of people of color in our cities.

This program was the first in a series of conversations presented by ULI Arizona to inform, promote new voices, learn from one another, and be a part of the solutions that deliver meaningful change.

ULI Nashville: Face-to-Face: Making Change to Racism and Real Estate

September 18, 2020
11:00 AM-12:15 PM CDT

This Face-to-Face session explored the following Community Engagement Process kinds of questions: What does it mean to engage a community and why is it necessary when bringing change to a neighborhood? How does changing the ‘when, how, who and where’ of neighborhood engagement create a more successful outcome for everyone? When should community engagement take place in a development project process? Is there value in community outreach not tied to a development project?

ULI Kansas City: Affordable City Webinar Series

Imagine a thriving, livable city that promotes responsible land use, uses renewable resources, and provides equitable opportunities for growth. Kansas City is ascending, but its current trajectory is not economically viable down the road. What can be done now to foster sustainable growth and build a city we can all afford?

Led by Dennis Strait, Gould Evans, and Kevin McGinnis, Keystone District, this webinar series will identify both challenges and opportunities ahead. Each week will highlight a different topic guided by a subject-matter expert sharing perspectives from design, engineering, building, governing and community.

ULI Philadelphia: A Conversation with Richard Rothstein

ULI Philadelphia, in partnership with Boston, New York, and Washington D.C. hosted a conversation with Richard Rothstein, author of the Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How our Government Segregated America. Rothstein’s presentation touched on how many metropolitan areas in the United State came to be racially segregated. This program was organized in response to ULI Philadelphia’s Black Lives Matter statement, which committed to convening programming on the harmful legacy of past and current development policies and practices that segregate Black and Brown communities.