Members’ interest in advancing social and racial equity, and their sense of urgency to do so, has been growing since 2020. They have looked to ULI for guidance on how to translate their interest into action, and the Institute recently released a report to provide high-level, guiding ideas on making racial equity central to practitioners’ work.
ULI recently published Greening Buildings for Healthier People: Optimizing Climate Mitigation, Resilience, and Health Co-Benefits in Real Estate, which includes strategies for promoting access to nature at the property scale and describes the wide-ranging benefits of doing so. Although the report focuses on these strategies’ benefits to tenants, communities, and project success, “greening” the building—both inside and throughout the site—also help to shape the larger urban environment.
When U.S. pandemic lockdowns were underway about two years ago, many people—especially those who could work from home—drastically reduced their driving and transit use. Although this contributed to a short-term reduction in carbon emissions, energy use has since rebounded, and some people continue to avoid public transportation in favor of less sustainable options like driving. These trends reflect larger issues around land use and mobility in cities, according to Greening Buildings for Healthier People: Optimizing Climate Mitigation, Resilience, and Health Co-Benefits in Real Estate, a new ULI report.
ULI’s new report Greening Buildings for Healthier People: Optimizing Climate Mitigation, Resilience, and Health Co-Benefits in Real Estateidentifies building-scale opportunities to simultaneously and cost-effectively accelerate action on climate change and health, maximize their co-benefits, and manage any tensions between them.
Five ULI members share their perspectives on the importance of real estate industry support for parks and their own experiences with championing parks.
An excerpt from the forthcoming ULI report The Pandemic and the Public Realm: Global Innovations for Health, Social Equity, and Sustainability, which documents how cities around the world looked to their public spaces to meet changing needs.
Urban developers have become increasingly interested in building places with little or no dedicated parking spots. Then the COVID-19 pandemic hit, raising questions about the funding of public transit and safety. A new ULI report looks at micromobility’s value for cities and real estate.
