Description
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