Healthy Housing

Housing directly affects individuals’ health and the wellbeing of entire communities. The Building Healthy Places Initiative elevates health as a priority in housing.

Key Activities

As the result of a competitive process, ULI District Councils in Arizona, Chicago, Sacramento and Tampa Bay were selected to convene member-led task forces to identify policy and regulatory barriers to healthier and more equitable places and provide recommendations for local policy shifts and reforms. Working through late 2020, each District Council Task Force will illuminate local policies and practices that make health-promoting development difficult or increase the vulnerability of low-income people, build a case that reform is needed, and prepare specific recommendations for shifts in policy and practice.

Major Publications

Healthy Housing for All (2018)

Housing in America: Integrating Housing, Health, and Resilience in a Changing Environment (2014)

Project Profiles

High Point
Seattle, WA		 Mariposa
Denver, COvia6-cropped
New Genesis Apartments
Los Angeles, CA		 Prospect Plaza
Brooklyn, NYvia6-cropped
Regent Park
Toronto
 1180 Fourth Street
San Francisco, CA

 

Projects designed to support resident health can provide much more stable environments. This increased stability not only creates a great social return in keeping families healthy, but also can support a project’s financial success. A healthy building is beneficial to a building owner’s bottom line.

Les Bluestone President, Blue Sea Development Company and Blue Sea Construction Co.; Board Chair, Center for Active Design

From Healthy Housing for All

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To learn more about ULI’s work on housing, the Terwilliger Center for Housing advances best practices in residential development and public policy, and supports ULI members and local communities in creating and sustaining a full spectrum of housing opportunities, particularly for low- and moderate-income households.