Final Four at HUD
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by Jay Skardis [CRP]
Now in its fifth year, the Federal Agency for Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Innovation in Affordable Housing (IAH) competition is open to teams from graduate schools throughout the country. For the 2018 competition, a group of five students from the City and Regional Planning (CRP), Sustainable Environmental Systems (SES), and Real Estate Practice (REP) disciplines within the Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment (GCPE) at Pratt Institute were chosen by the faculty to
compete. And in December of 2017, Isil Akgül (SES), Larissa Ly (CRP), Olivia Norfleet (CRP), Brandon O’Halloran (REP), and Jay Skardis (CRP) submitted their application. They were one of 106 teams.
architecture, environmental impacts, and social services programming. The more innovative the better, while being able to justify how these solutions would work, within a timeframe, and within the budget.
An affordable housing project scheduled to be built, or renovated, is chosen by HUD each year as the location for each team’s theoretical design. HUD’s directive for the competition design was to bring innovative solutions to all aspects of the process, from finance to design,
Topographical and zoning maps of a two-and-a-half-acre site two miles from the center of Dover, New Hampshire, with existing buildings, was provided to each team. The directive was given to increase the density of the site by 154 units to accommodate the senior and disabled
