2022 Innovation in Affordable Housing Student Design and Planning Competition: The Housing Authority of the City of Atlanta, Georgia

Alaina M. Stern
Office of Policy Development and Research
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

The Jury:
Jamie Bordenave (Head Juror)—Founder and President, The Communities Group
Dana Cuff—Director, cityLAB, and Faculty, Dept. of Architecture and Better Urban Design, University of California, Los Angeles
Carlos Martin—Project Director of the Remodeling Futures, Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies, Rubenstein Fellow, The Brookings Institution.
Mariela Alfonzo—Founder and Chief Executive Officer, State of Place
Jesse Wiles—Principal, Chief Executive Officer, APD Urban Planning and Management
Cody Owens—Housing Preservation Specialist, Dominion Due Diligence Group

Winning Team—University of Maryland, “Rise of Pines”
Danielle Abe
Fadi Alajati
Maria Fernanda Farieta
Samuel McCormally
Donald Nuzzio

Runner-Up Team—University of California, Berkeley, “Civic Oaks”
James Chang
Norris Cooper
Emiliano Farina
Angela Miki Kobayashi
Brice Lockard

The ninth annual U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD’s) Innovation in Affordable Housing (IAH) Student Design and Planning Competition challenged multidisciplinary graduate student teams to respond to an existing affordable housing design and planning issue. Teams were composed of graduate students in architecture, planning and policy, finance, business, and other disciplines. The competition required students to address the social, economic, and environmental issues in responding to a specific housing development problem identified by a partnering public housing agency (PHA).