Meeting the Challenge: Global Innovations in Urban Housing

Monday, April 8 – Tuesday, April 9, 2019

Meeting the Challenge: Global Innovations in Urban Housing was an international conference to address America’s housing affordability crisis. Conference participants featured the High-Cost Cities Housing Forum (HCHF), a peer-to-peer group comprised of local housing commissioners from nine of the most expensive cities in the United States. The commissioners were joined by leading international experts and policymakers for a two-day program that featured a mix of panel presentations, keynotes, and local site visits. Speakers highlighted strategies and best practices that could be applied in other cities on topics ranging from land use planning to social housing.

This event was hosted by the Boston University Initiative on Cities and supported by Citi Community Development, The Rockefeller Foundation, Enterprise Community Partners, and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.