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.

After 3,400 years, Athens will soon get its first big park. When completed in 2030, Ellinikon Metropolitan Park will be an enormous addition of public green space that may prove as important to Athenians as Central Park is to New Yorkers.

Joseph Azrack, principal of Azrack & Company, and his wife Abigail Congdon, along with Dan Cashdan, president of Jones Lang LaSalle Securities, and his wife Allisyn Cashdan, have donated a combined $500,000 to the ULI Foundation’s first capital campaign, Our Cities, Our Future, in support of the Net Zero Imperative (NZI), ULI’s multiyear initiative to accelerate decarbonization of the built environment.

Experts discuss best practices for incentivizing property owners and developers to switch to all-electric buildings, ways to ensure the transition is equitable for low-income communities, challenges to the widespread implementation of building electrification, and other innovations and trends.

At a recent ULI webinar, industry leaders walked attendees through some common problems with achieving net zero through electrification and offered actionable tips for moving forward to carbon neutrality.

Top-down construction—constructing floors at ground level, then raising them to the top of the building and then successively downward—potentially offers an attractive alternative to conventional construction.

ULI Building Healthy Places brought together the sixth cohort of the ULI/Randall Lewis Health Mentorship Program at the 2023 Spring Meeting for three days of learning, network building, and exchange. Since 2017, the program has matched graduate students with ULI members working at the intersection of health and the built environment to learn about ULI and deepen their understanding of opportunities to advance health outcomes through careers in land use, planning, and real estate.

Public-sector leaders of two Southern European cities speaking at the 2023 ULI Europe Conference called on commercial property investors to help them decrease housing supply shortages.

Civic leaders must pursue sustainability in all areas within their realm of responsibility with a deep, holistically structured, and unwavering commitment.

As the use of mass-timber construction gains momentum in the multifamily development business, it is still taking baby steps in the U.S. industrial market. Last October, Affinius Capital and Seefried Industrial Properties attracted plenty of attention when they completed a 161,000-square-foot (14,900 sq m) wood-paneled warehouse outside Dallas, one of the first of its kind in the country, and more are planned or under construction.