Cultivating Neighborhoods & the Small Scale Development Movement
Do you want to learn more about how you can become a small real estate developer for a project in your neighborhood? Are you an advocate or local leader looking to encourage better buildings in your community?
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Portland leads the nation in progressive zoning reform, allowing innovative small-scale housing from ADUs to tiny houses. We'll celebrate this progress while addressing remaining challenges to encourage local developers to meet the city’s need for 120,560 new units by 2045. This lecture invites real estate ecosystem partners to join us for an introduction to the power of small and begin to collaborate on scaling successful models and encouraging continued innovation citywide.
Join us for a free lecture by Elizabeth Ward Williams, IncDev Faculty Member and Director of Urban Design at Kronberg Urbanists + Architects and Neil Heller, IncDev Faculty Member and Principal of Neighborhood Workshop.
We look forward to also welcome our friends from Portland Neighbors Welcome and Strong Towns PDX.
Event time is presented in Pacific Time.
About the Presenters
Elizabeth Ward Williams is Director of Urban Design at Kronberg Urbanists + Architects. A native of Atlanta with master's degrees in architecture and city planning from Georgia Tech, she's dedicated to creating an Atlanta she's proud to call home. Elizabeth serves on her neighborhood planning committee, advocates with local organizations, and teaches as faculty for the Incremental Development Alliance and part-time lecturer at Georgia Tech. She uses her expertise to advocate for positive policy, development, and design changes while enjoying biking and camping adventures.
Neil is a national award-winning urban planner and designer specializing in aligning municipal regulations with community development goals through real estate pro-forma analysis. He combines expertise in design, housing policy, and development to create user-focused solutions and equitable housing policies. As a small landlord managing 2-4 unit buildings and longtime Portland housing advocate, he brings practical experience to regulatory reform. Neil was recently featured in Sightline for his work providing financial justification for increasing housing units on single-dwelling lots owned by nonprofits.
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