SAT-C02: Affordable Housing as a Driver for Equitable Landscapes in San Francisco

Saturday, November 12, 2022

3:45pm – 5:00pm PT

Location: Moscone Center, Room 303

1.25 PDH, LA CES/HSW, AIA/HSW, AICP, FL, NY/HSW

Lead Speaker(s)

Wendy Mok, ASLA, PLA

Director, Landscape Architect
GLS Landscape | Architecture
San Francisco, California

Speaker(s)

Anne Torney, AIA, LEED AP BD+C

Partner
Mithun
San Francisco, California
Bo S. Han, LEED AP, Certifed Passive House Designer

Senior Project Manager
Chinatown Community Development Center
San Francisco, California

One-third of households in San Francisco spend more than 30% of their income on rent. In 2019, voters approved a $600-million affordable housing bond. Learn from a non-profit developer, an architect, and a landscape architect on how they leverage multilayered affordable housing partnerships to create impactful open spaces in San Francisco.

Learning Outcomes:

Learn about the unique and varied partnerships required to build affordable housing integrated with open space.
Recognize how permanently affordable housing serves a building block of society with exponential benefits, especially when community participation helps build stability and resiliency, providing a counterbalance to gentrification.
Understand the developer’s objectives and constraints and gain insight as to how financing of affordable housing impacts key design decisions such as the programming of commercial, residential, and outdoor spaces.
Observe how landscape architects blur the boundaries between disciplines in the design process to leverage the budget of each discipline and elevate the greater whole.