2025 ULI Housing Awards Webinar Series
Each year, through the ULI Housing Awards, projects across the country showcase their impact in the housing industry through financing, policy, and partnership innovation. Winning projects represent opportunities for communities to replicate their strategies and increase attainable housing nationwide. Each webinar in this ULI member-exclusive series features one of the winners – showcasing their project case studies, pro forma, policy angles, financial strategy, and community engagement. You'll walk away with actionable strategies to take back to your projects and partnerships.
Register below for each webinar or join ULI to attend.
Sendero Verde is a transformative mixed-use development in East Harlem and one of the largest Passive House affordable residential projects in the world. Completed in 2024, it delivers 709 affordable apartments at a range of incomes. Panelists from the development and architectural teams will discuss the public-private partnerships that enabled this project, a general overview of Passive House and what that means for the façade and mechanical systems, the local conditions and agency involvement in this projects, and financial and community engagement challenges that had to be overcome.
Sendero Verde
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Sendero Verde
April 1 | 1:00 - 2:00 PM EDT
April 1 | 1:00 - 2:00 PM EDT
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The Aster transformed a long-blighted site in downtown Salt Lake City– a half-built, abandoned structure on State Street– into a vibrant community with 190 units with a full range of affordability. Learn how the development and architectural teams used innovative construction techniques to incorporate modular panels, about the public/private partnerships that helped to preserve an 1890 historic house on the site, and the policy innovations that allowed the financing to pencil out.
April 8 | 1:00 - 2:00 PM EDT
Market Street Village
The Aster
April 15 | 1:00 - 2:00 PM EDT
Market Street Village is a 229-unit property in San Diego that was acquired to directly support San Diego's homelessness reduction efforts and provide affordability in one of the most expensive markets in the country. Panelists will discuss acquisition as a strategy to preserve affordability faster and more cost effectively than ground-up construction, the novel partnership between the owners and the city's homelessness response system, and the model for social impact funds to deliver affordable housing to combat homelessness in high cost markets in as little as 90 days.
The Wilder
April 22 | 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EDT
The Wilder is an adaptive-reuse development project, transforming a 1970s roadside motel into 97 units of permanent, mixed-income workforce housing in the urban core of Nashville, Tennessee. Learn how policy changes, especially the Nashville Mixed-Income Housing PILOT program, allowed this project to support workforce level rents, all without public subsidy. Hear from the development team about the challenges of adaptive reuse conversions within the building's existing footprint and the extensive community engagement that helped fill a neighborhood need.
April 8 | 1:00 - 2:00 PM EDT
The Aster
Market Street Village
April 15 | 1:00 - 2:00 PM EDT
2025 ULI Housing Awards Webinar Series
The Wilder
April 22 | 1:00 - 2:00 PM EDT
The Kelsey Ayer Station is a transformative new model of inclusive, accessible, affordable housing in San Jose. Thoughtfully designed for cross-disability access and connected community living, this development provides 115 apartments, 25% of which are reserved for people with disabilities. In this webinar, hear from panelists about The Kelsey's Inclusive Design Standards, myth-busting about the expense of inclusivity, and more about this new model for inclusive housing that prioritizes connectivity and community.
April 29 | 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EDT
The Kelsey Ayer Station
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Apply for the 2026 ULI Housing Impact Awards
ULI Terwilliger Center’s newly revamped Housing Impact Awards recognize exemplary developments and policies that demonstrate creativity in expanding housing opportunities. The purpose of the Housing Impact Awards is to elevate best practices that measurably expand housing supply and affordability and highlight replicable development and policy models that can be adopted at scale in communities across the country.