In a market that has been disrupted by rising interest rates and unsteady financial markets, single-family rental investors and developers have not lost sight of the bigger picture. Demand for housing still exceeds supply.

Despite uncertainty for 2023, participants in a ULI Pittsburgh event in January said converting 18 to 20 buildings would transform the downtown.

A member of ULI Memphis discusses the optimism for a new Ford Motor Company facility in Haywood County.

ULI has selected architect Hans Papke as the recipient of the 2021–2022 Apgar Thought Leader Award, which recognizes the authors of outstanding written works for Urban Land.

To be successful and sustainable, fighting homelessness in Los Angeles requires crisis intervention on two fronts: First, we must build more permanent housing and much more of it needs to be affordable. Second, we must build more transitional shelter of every type—more quickly and much, much more affordably. But shelter is not enough.

In 2021, the ULI Americas Young Leaders Group (YLG) Steering Committee was formed to better support and connect the more than 50 YLG district council cohorts in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Urban Landspoke with co-chairs Chandler Hogue, director of Gemdale USA Corporation in Pasadena, California, and Katie Maslechko, director of development for Beedie in Vancouver, British Columbia, about how the committee works to empower its members to contribute to the Institute and help shape the future of the built environment.

Peter Bedford of Napa, California, a ULI Trustee, Foundation Governor, Executive Committee member, and leader of the Institute and industry, passed away in early January. Since joining ULI in 1980, Bedford was active in all aspects of the Institute and was generous with his time and resources.

Never underestimate the power of showing up. That’s one of the most important lessons I learned through my participation in the ULI Atlanta Young Leaders Group.

A discussion at the ULI Fall Meeting in Dallas covered the legacy of working in a family company, as well as the challenges of leadership today, including how to lead a changing post-pandemic workforce and prepare for lean times.

The ULI Greenprint Center for Building Performance announced today that four more of its real estate members have aligned to ULI Greenprint’s net zero carbon operations goal. These real estate leaders join the 30 members who have already adopted this goal to reduce the carbon emissions of their collective portfolio under operational control to net zero by the year 2050. The four members newly committed to net zero emissions are Bridge Industrial, Prologis (by 2030), Shorenstein Realty, and Unico Properties.