LIIF staff from the Early Care and Education (ECE) team in San Francisco recently joined architects from Dorman Associates for a panel discussion and Q&A with graduate students from the Terner Center at University of California, Berkeley as part of this year’s James R. Boyce Affordable Housing Studio course. LIIF team members included Angie Garling, Senior Vice President, National ECE, Kim DiGiacomo, ECE Vice President, Capacity Building, William Lacker, Program Officer, Early Care and Education, and Sean Doocy, Program Manager, ECE.
For graduate students studying housing policy and innovation, the studio simulates the process of working with a client and navigating the social, economic, and political challenges inherent in creating an affordable housing project. With help from organizations like LIIF, students apply design, finance, and planning skills to develop new approaches to affordable housing development for low income residents.
Alongside other leading professionals in development, finance, law, planning, architecture, non-profits, and municipal agencies, LIIF staff imparted their early care and education (ECE) expertise to help provide students with a thorough and three dimensional understanding of development issues around topics like site selection, entitlements, community needs, resident services, financial modeling, funding sources, project management, construction, and design.
Students apply design, finance, and planning skills to develop new approaches to affordable housing development for low income residents.