According to John McIlwain, ULI senior resident fellow for housing, at a recent forum hosted by the ULI Terwilliger Center for Workforce Housing, development of housing in the post-recession economy will be influenced by two population groups at opposite ends of the age spectrum: Gen Y and senior citizens. Listen to McIlwain discuss what Gen Yers will want in housing.

According to John McIlwain, ULI senior resident fellow for housing, at a recent forum hosted by the ULI Terwilliger Center for Workforce Housing, development of housing in the post-recession economy will be influenced by two population groups at opposite ends of the age spectrum: Gen Y and senior citizens. Listen to McIlwain discuss what he describes as three distinct groups of seniors will want in housing.

Last year, property-assessed clean-energy (PACE) financing plans were considered dead in the water. But a more hopeful narrative emerged earlier this month when 120 local government, business, and nonprofit officials gathered in Palm Desert, California, for the “PACE Solutions” conference. Read how creative approaches are being used to circumvent FHFA restrictions and break the federal logjam.

Affordable workforce housing will play a key role in the post-recession economy, said ULI chief executive officer Patrick Phillips at a workforce housing forum hosted earlier this month in Orlando by the ULI Terwilliger Center for Workforce Housing. Read what he and other industry leaders said about the demographic and population shifts that will drive the development of such housing going forward.

Arizona is poised to drive the country’s renewable energy industry, says a national site selector who helps businesses find cities they can relocate to or where they can expand.

According to John McIlwain, ULI senior resident fellow for housing, at a recent forum hosted by the ULI Terwilliger Center for Workforce Housing, development of such housing in the post-recession economy will be influenced by two population groups at opposite ends of the age spectrum: Gen Y and senior citizens. Read what participants said about the obstacles that are poised to affect these two large demographic groups’ housing choices.

The ULI Rose Center invites the mayors of four cities to participate in the yearlong Daniel Rose Fellowship program, which begins at the ULI Fall Meeting. Read what the panel of experts who visited Houston, Texas, last December said in regard to that city’s attempts to stabilize declining neighborhoods by demolishing longstanding problem properties on the basis of health and safety violations.

While other industries have fully leveraged social media, the real estate industry appears to lag behind. Is there a strained relationship between the two? Leslie Braunstein, principal of LHB Communications, speaks about how the real estate industry might have discovered how to utilize social media.

A recent poll revealed that social media are now used by the majority of adult online users. The commercial real estate industry, however, has been slow to figure out the best way to use this emergent technology. Read how going beyond Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn by creating an active presence on Foursquare, Yelp, and YouTube is poised to usher real estate into its time in the sun in 2011.

How are architects using social media? Sybil Walker Barnes, social media director for the American Institute of Architects, sits down with Urban Land magazine to discuss how architecture professionals have been using social media and how she expects the industry to use it going forward.