Equitable Community Development and Sustainability

05/10/2024

We are pleased to announce that we have extended the Early Bird Registration rate for the 2024 Pan African City Exposition until May 24, 2024. Make sure you register early to take advantage of the big discounted rate. https://usafricacollaborative.org/registration/

04/30/2024

Just 56 days before the 2024 Pan African City Exposition: Building Sustainability and Equity for the Future. Early Bird Registration rates are in effect until May 15, when the price will go up. Please join us for this incredible innovative international event that focuses on developing solutions to address housing and human settlements challenges throughout the African Diaspora. Join speakers from the public and private sectors with expertise in affordable housing, tax credit finance, housing production, homelessness, sustainability, resilience, equity, inclusion, and planning. Participate in the Latin Caribbean Forum, bilateral discussions on housing, human settlements, and community development, informative plenary sessions, concurrent sessions, and development tours. Don't miss this amazing event. Reserve your tickets now at the Early Bird Rate!
https://usafricacollaborative.org/registration/

03/21/2024

***Exciting Sponsorship Opportunity!!**🎆🎇🌠
The 2024 Pan African City Exposition: Building Sustainability and Equity for the Future will be held June 26-29 at Maryland's oldest HBCU, established in 1865. This amazing event will bring together practitioners, professionals, educators, government officials, and from Africa, UK, and the Americas. I am excited to announce that our new website is officially launched and our Sponsorship Package is available. Partner with peers and experts from around the world as we learn, work, and grow together. Together, we will design strategies for our sustainable housing with future success that leads to equitable living communities around the world. Garner exposure to promote your brand at the premiere global housing event. This incredible opportunity to have your brand associated with this international event focused on sustainability, resilience, equity, inclusivity, and planning in the housing, human settlements, and real estate development sectors might be the only chance you will have to engage with such an expert group in 2024. Visit our website for more information at

The UAC 2024 PAC Exposition is a valuable platform for knowledge exchange, capacity building, innovation, and collaboration among housing and real estate developers, students, educators, and government officials, ultimately contributing to the advancement of sustainable and inclusive urban developme...

08/15/2023

Outstanding!

The ruling follows a first-of-its-kind trial in the U.S., adding to a small number of legal decisions around the world that have established a government duty to protect citizens from climate change.

04/27/2020

Gentrification of DC's H Street corridor's consequences - intended or unintended?

How the marketing of blackness as a prized aesthetic often leaves the city's Black residents behind.

09/24/2019

Ben Austen, author of "High-Risers," talks about Chicago's Cabrini-Green and the mixed legacy of a 20th-century dream.

09/20/2019

Miami-Dade is moving out all residents from the Harry Cain public-housing tower in downtown Miami, citing “toxic” air from mold, asbestos and lead paint. They’ll be sent to private-sector apartments with Section 8 vouchers.

09/20/2019

With more than 80% of Singaporeans living in state-provided housing, the city rates well for affordability compared to Sydney, where the figure is just 5.5%.

A coordinated mix of policies does more to keep housing affordable for a significant proportion of a city's residents than the unbalanced approach we see in Sydney.

09/18/2019

The City of Joburg has won a coveted international award for a new low cost housing development in the city.

09/18/2019

Over a third of the multifamily loans the two firms purchase must now be directed toward affordable housing.

09/18/2019

More units, edible landscaping, green features and other amenities are being added as the Westview Village public housing is rebuilt.

09/18/2019

For the first time in suburban Cook County, there's a temporary housing facility to help medical patients and those on the brink of homelessness.