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Karen Jordan

Karen Jordan is a freelance journalist, filmmaker, and author based in Los Angeles. She has contributed to The Atlantic, Los Angeles magazine, and the Huffington Post.

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Resilience and Sustainability
ULI Houston Illuminates Neighborhood Struggle and Potential
Settegast, a neighborhood in Northeast Houston, is home to a resilient and tight-knit community that has mobilized in response to decades of discriminatory practices and under-resourcing. As a result of systematic neglect, Settegast residents face challenges such as displacement, gentrification, and most notably, poorer health outcomes, including the lowest life expectancy rate in Harris County. To find solutions, ULI Houston partnered with Harris County Public Health, the Houston Land Bank, the Kinder Institute for Urban Research, and convened community residents and real estate leaders to build trust and chart a more equitable future for the neighborhood.
September 28, 2023
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Karen Jordan
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Resilience and Sustainability
ULI Toronto: Learning from the Past to Create a Brighter Future in Mount Dennis
Over the past 18 months, ULI Toronto and partners forged an understanding of the trends, pressures, and challenges experienced by Toronto’s Black population to shine a light on how history is shaping the present. The team documented Black displacement and Black settlement patterns in the Toronto area, focusing on the Mount Dennis neighborhood, which has faced disinvestment. The perspectives and priorities of Mount Dennis residents were gathered to inform development priorities and future projects.
September 27, 2023
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Resilience and Sustainability
ULI Northwest Outlines Pathways for Community Healing and Well-being
Sites in Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, Washington, are home to a painful and complicated history that many neighborhoods in rapidly growing regions are familiar with. To combat the region’s history of racially biased land use and transportation decisions, ULI Northwest joined forces with local leaders to reimagine two sites: one in Tukwila, near Seattle, and the other on the edge of Portland, Oregon.
September 27, 2023
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Karen Jordan
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Resilience and Sustainability
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News
ULI St. Louis Addresses the City’s Home Repair Crisis
In St. Louis, a pressing home repair crisis is disproportionately affecting Black homeowners who struggle to afford the upkeep of their homes. This issue is deeply rooted in a legacy of racial injustice, including redlining and restrictive covenants. To find solutions, ULI St. Louis collaborated with local organizations to develop strategies aimed at establishing a Home Repair Network, which will create a new centralized umbrella organization to address the city’s home repair dilemma.
August 2, 2023
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Karen Jordan
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Development and Construction
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San Francisco
Retail-to-Life Science Conversions: How to Successfully Reposition Your Asset
While some big-box retail stores are closing, some developers are eyeing opportunities with retail-to-life science conversions or additions.
June 14, 2023
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Karen Jordan
Economic Development
How Community Involvement Can Make Retrofitting Historic Buildings a Win/Win
The development of Zibi, a master-planned development under construction in Ottawa on 34 acres (14 ha) of waterfront property is relying heavily on feedback from the community, including consulting with Indigenous people, panelists said at the 2023 ULI Spring Meeting.
May 19, 2023
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Karen Jordan
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Capital Markets and Finance
Closing the Gap: Latresa McLawhorn Ryan’s Mission to Promote Equity in Commercial Real Estate
Armed with a determination to help provide resources and address the racial wealth gap, Latresa McLawhorn Ryan walks the talk. Now the former founding executive director and first employee at the Atlanta Wealth Building Initiative is embarking on a new venture as founder of Atlanta-based Blackbird Strategy Group. Here she shares insights on using real estate to close the racial wealth gap and advance economic security for Black and brown communities.
April 24, 2023
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Karen Jordan
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Development and Construction
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Innovation Districts & Corridors
Modular Construction Offers Solution to Affordable Housing Crisis
In high-cost markets such as Los Angeles, modular construction is reducing the average cost per unit by more than 50 percent, in addition to higher retention for the workers assembling the units off site.
March 3, 2023
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Karen Jordan
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Development and Construction
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Office - Buildings
Russell Innovation Center CEO Jay Bailey on How Real Estate Can Help Close the Racial Wealth Gap
Jay Bailey, president and CEO of the Atlanta-based Russell Innovation Center for Entrepreneurs, or RICE, is committed to championing Black entrepreneurs and creating unparalleled opportunities. Urban Land recently interviewed Bailey on the subject of how commercial real estate can be used to help close the racial wealth gap.
February 22, 2023
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Karen Jordan
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Development and Construction
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Equitable Development
Don Peebles and Daryl Carter on Building Affordable Housing
Affordable housing in California has become increasingly difficult to develop in recent years in a state where there is a significant lack of it. Two developers speak to the barriers to development in Southern California.
February 6, 2023
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Karen Jordan
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