On October 21, 2025, 8 advisory group members of the AIA Housing and Community Development Knowledge Community (HCD) joined leaders at the AIA Housing Summit in Washington, DC, hosted by AIA President Evelyn Lee. The Summit brought together AIA National Leadership, senior leaders from approximately 20 national housing organizations, volunteer leaders, and AIA staff to advance coordinated housing advocacy and action within the AIA and beyond.
The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) and the American Institute of Architects (AIA) held their joint ACSA/AIA Intersections Research Conference in Austin, TX, January 9-11, 2025. The conference explored housing as a process, a product, and a place.The conference brought together over 139 attendees from around the world who joined together to speculate on, advocate for, operate within, and struggle with new housing paradigms.Find more information at the ACSA Recap and a Karen Kubey article.
The National Low Income Housing Coalition's Opportunity Starts at Home Campaign and HCD launched a 5-part podcast series on how architects and advocates can shape housing equity to create supportive, sustainable communities!Look for episodes on SoundCloud, Apple, and Spotify!
Preamble: On March 2nd and 3rd 2026, researchers and practitioners gathered at the Housing Resilience Roundtable, an event produced by the University of Florida (UF), Florida Institute for Built Environment read more
Hello AIA Maryland is on it is our last Call for Speakers for our second annual conference, Future Forward 2026 (we recognize the name overlap-and are leaning into it!). Call for Speakers – Future Forward read more
The data in The Gap report from the National Low Income Housing Coalition highlights a housing shortage that many of us see firsthand in practice. While architects play an important role in shaping the read more
Dear Ismar Enriquez, Thank you for sharing this. We are facing a much greater Gap in South Africa. Regards, Barak Mizrachi (Pr Arch, SACAP 7917, Int Associate AIA) Principal Architect, read more
Thank you for posting - really interesting! Kathleen A. Dorgan, FAIA, LEED-AP, LFA, Principal Participatory Design for Regenerative Communities of Choice and Equity T:+1(860) 487-6740 M:+1(518) 469-6464 read more
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