August 14, 2024
Are you attending ULI’s 2024 Fall Meeting in Las Vegas? Check out the Terwilliger Center Guide to Fall Meeting – your ultimate resource for all content focused on affordable housing and homelessness.
This guide, brought to you by the Terwilliger Center for Housing, offers a curated list of events taking place at the ULI 2024 Fall Meeting in Las Vegas that will address affordable housing and homelessness. With detailed descriptions, dates, and times (all in PT), you can plan your schedule and maximize your experience while in Las Vegas.
For the most detailed and up-to-date information about these events and the rest of the Fall Meeting, please visit the official Fall Meeting website.
Please join us at these ULI Terwilliger Center for Housing activities:
We also recommend these related offerings:
Note: All listed program and activities, except for tours, are open to all registered Fall Meeting attendees.
Tour: Affordable Oasis: Creative Solutions to Address Nevada’s Housing Crisis | 8:00am – 2:30pm | Separate registration required
Hear from Nevada’s leading affordable housing developers about how they are addressing the local housing crisis. Decatur Commons consists of 480 units (240 family units and 240 senior units) of high-quality affordable housing for low-income families and seniors located on a 20-acre infill site in the heart of Las Vegas. Neighborhood amenities include proximity to the health department, schools, parks, retail stores, grocery stores, and a Regional Transportation Commission (RTC) bus route right outside the door. Designed with long-term sustainability in mind, Decatur Commons features energy-efficient appliances, windows, LED lighting, solar panels, and desert landscaping. Nevada HAND’s Resident Services are available to every resident at no cost and provide year-round life-enriching programs and access to community services in the areas of education, health and wellness, economic stability, and community engagement. In recognition of its excellence, Decatur Commons won the 2023 NAIOP Spotlight Award for Mixed-Use Development and a 2023 CoStar Impact Award for multifamily development.
As one of Nevada’s largest and leading apartment developers of both market-rate and affordable housing for low-income seniors and working families, Ovation Development and its nonprofit partner, Coordinated Living of Southern Nevada, ensure affordable housing communities maintain the exceptional quality associated with market-rate projects. To date, Ovation has completed 14 affordable housing communities, bringing to market more than 2,000 affordable apartment units. With seven more projects in the planning stages or under construction, by early 2028, Ovation will add an additional 1,500 affordable residences, providing much-needed financial relief for low-income residents in Southern Nevada, including families, seniors, and those who are employed but unable to find affordable housing. This tour will visit Tempo IV, an affordable senior living community with 208 units across two buildings, which will be completed in 2024.
MEA: Housing Affordability in Vegas | 2:00 – 2:20pm | Resorts World – Level 2, Lily Ballroom, Area B
This session will present the ULI Terwilliger Center’s Home Attainability Index for Vegas and nearby regions—what does the housing market look like for the region? What are the issues and challenges? What else is the data pointing to?
ULI Homeless to Housed Screening Room: “Until We’re All Home” | 7:30 – 9:30pm | Resorts World – Level 2, Primrose Meeting Room
Successful practices that help individuals out of homelessness and reduce it across entire communities often go unnoticed. Until We’re All Home, a new documentary by Community Solutions and filmmakers Dewi Sungai and Jason Houston, highlights how six U.S. communities are significantly reducing homelessness through the Built for Zero movement. Stay for a post-film discussion led by Gordon Wayne, a passionate advocate and ABC New Person of the Week who overcame homelessness and is now in his second year of law school.
Senior Housing and the LGBTQ Community Luncheon | 11:30-1:00pm | By invitation only
If you are interested in attending this invite-only luncheon, please reach out to Will Herbig at [email protected].
Homeless to Housed Symposium | 2:30 – 4:00pm | Resorts World – Level 2, Orchid Ballroom A
MISSION PRIORITY |Join host and moderator Lisa Benjamin (Lexicon Strategies and ULI Global Governing Trustee) for the third ULI Homeless to Housed (H2H) Symposium to explore solutions to the U.S. housing and homelessness crisis. Keynote speaker Mandy Chapman Semple (Clutch Consulting Group) will discuss Houston’s transformative homeless system, which reduced homelessness by 60% in four years, and outline private sector opportunities for “creating a new marketplace” for deeply affordable housing for individuals with extremely low or no income.
A multidisciplinary panel will weigh in, featuring Peggy Bailey (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities), Juawana Grant (Nevada Housing Division), and Jess Molasky (Ovation Co.). Special remarks provided by Preston Butcher, ULI Foundation Governor.
Innovative State and Local Policies Facilitating Housing Production | 9:00 – 10:00am | Resorts World – Level 2, Lotus AB
State and local governments have been making the news in recent years pushing legislation, new funding, and other proposals to advance housing production. But how are they performing? And which policies should be replicated in other communities? This panel will discuss these innovative state and local housing policies and draw from the findings of the 2024 ULI Shaw Forum where developers, policymakers, economists, and researchers will deliberate on the policies they believe will prove most successful in producing quality housing in their communities.
Homeless to Housed: Showcase of Innovation | 10:30 – 11:30am | Resorts World – Level 2, Lotus AB
Over the past year, ULI district councils in five communities launched projects to catalyze the production and preservation of deeply affordable housing for individuals experiencing homelessness. Each team will share insights and replicable lessons learned through a series of rapid-fire presentations, followed by an interactive open house for casual discussions and deeper engagement.
Reimagined Neighborhoods: “Missing Middle” Housing and the Role of Public/Private Partnerships | 2:30 – 3:30pm | Resorts World – Level 2, Lotus AB
In fast-growing areas where job opportunities are booming, there is a critical shortage of affordable middle-income housing. This shortage poses a significant challenge for essential workers such as nurses, teachers, and firefighters, who earn too much to qualify for government housing subsidies but struggle to afford market-rate housing. To address this issue, the concept of attainable housing or “missing-middle” housing has emerged, aiming to provide housing options for middle-income households without relying on subsidies. Public/private partnerships hold the potential to play a crucial role in tackling this pressing housing challenge and ensuring that essential workers have access to affordable housing options.
