Elizabeth Van Horn

Senior Manager, Homeless to Housed

Elizabeth Van Horn is a Senior Manager for the Center’s Homeless to Housed Initiative. She received a Randall Lewis Product Council Opportunity Scholarship to serve on the Public Private Partnership Product Council, Blue Flight from 2021 to 2024 in an effort to bring more public-sector and health perspectives to Product Councils.

Prior to joining ULI in 2024, she was an Urban Planner and Public Health Analyst for Harris County Public Health in Houston, Texas where she worked on a number of health equity and planning related projects, including a ULI Building Healthy Places grant-funded project. Elizabeth holds a dual Master’s in Urban and Environmental Planning and Sustainability Solutions from Arizona State University where both of her graduate theses focused on housing affordability and gentrification.

In her free time, Elizabeth loves to be outside hiking, camping, or running. She and her husband live in San Diego with their sweet dog, Simon.

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Affordable Housing
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San Francisco
Underused Land May Be the Key to Housing San José’s Unsheltered Residents
Roughly 10,000 people live on the streets or in temporary shelters in San José, California. This estimate, based on 2023 point-in-time calculations, sparked ULI members in the San Francisco Bay area to leverage ULI’s Homeless to Housed (H2H) grant initiative to help uncover potential housing solutions for their bayside neighbor.
January 13, 2025
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Kelly Annis
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Issues and Trends
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Affordable Housing
The Power of Housing and Transportation in San Antonio’s Vulnerable Communities
“ULI members in San Antonio understand the precariousness of their city’s housing crisis,” says Javier Paredes, principal at StudioMassivo and ULI San Antonio member leader. “They [also] recognize the power of aligning housing with transit to create greater housing stability.” In response to San Antonio’s housing crisis, ULI San Antonio members and staff applied to participate in a local technical assistance grant program from ULI’s Homeless to Housed (H2H) initiative.
January 2, 2025
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Kelly Annis
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Issues and Trends
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Philanthropic Impact
Lafayette Launches Community-Driven Initiative to Tackle Homelessness and Affordable Housing Crises
In Lafayette, Louisiana, homelessness and the lack of affordable housing are creating strain, prompting NIMBYism among community members and leaving civic leaders uncertain of a clear path forward. Understanding this challenge and the tension it can create throughout a city, ULI members gathered community members and leaders to dig into the difficult challenge of housing the city’s unhoused and most vulnerable residents. Supported by the ULI Homeless to Housed (H2H) grant initiative, Catholic Charities of Acadiana in Lafayette and ULI Louisiana gathered more than 300 residents for a series of community workshops to better understand the challenge and to outline pathways toward more deeply affordable housing and services for people most in need.
December 20, 2024
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Kelly Annis
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Issues and Trends
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Affordable Housing
Putting Housing First for Philadelphia’s Families in Need
Estimates suggest that, on any given night, almost 800 individuals are unsheltered, and more than 3,700 are living in emergency or transitional housing in Philadelphia. Homelessness can often be connected to difficulties in finding affordable housing.
December 13, 2024
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Kelly Annis
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