The first Innovative Housing Summit is to bring together visionaries, policymakers and professionals from the southeast and from various industry sectors to explore innovative housing trends and options as a response to growing demand for more environmentally friendly missing middle housing in Atlanta and the South.

KEY NOTE SPEAKER: Ross Chapin - Pocket Neighborhoods 

Target Audience for this Summit:

• Smaller Developers
• Architects
• Neighborhood influencers(NPU, Committees)
• Historic Planners
• City Planning Depts
• Real Estate Professionals
• Housing advocates
• Buyers (general public)
• High Performance Building engineers/scientists
• Energy Engineers
• Environmentalists

Topics for the Summit:

• Housing Innovation across the Nation - Trends
• Co-Housing- Pad split
• Local Ordinance barriers – Political Challenges to introducing innovative housing ideas; Other Regulatory Considerations
• Aging in place
• State of the Market and what needs to be done
• Forensics of the Deal- Break down how micro homes are built, financed and sold or Tales of Financing- Financing a Micro Structure and how to get it built
• Micro Structures- not just a tiny house- Uses and Examples (Disaster relief, social initiatives, etc.)/ How could Micro units help fill range of need in different jurisdictions - More yes for housing options
• Pocket Neighborhoods/Community Development/ Intentional Communities
• Workforce housing
• Intentional Communities
• Space Utilization and the South- How can we utilize space better with our cities and what could it mean for our communities.
• Performance Tuning/Quality control- High quality construction over luxury finishes
• Living building challenge – What can we learn from these projects to apply to our everyday residential buildings
• SOLAR, Microhousing and intentional communities

The first Innovative Housing Summit is to bring together visionaries, policymakers and professionals from the southeast and from various industry sectors to explore innovative housing trends and options as a response to growing demand for more environmentally friendly missing middle housing in Atlanta and the South. Keynote Speaker: Ross Chapin Pocket Neighborhoods