ULI Announces Finalists for 2023 Jack Kemp, Terwilliger Center Innovation Awards – Urban Land

The ULI Terwilliger Center for Housing has announced four finalists for this year’s Jack Kemp Excellence in Affordable and Workforce Housing Award and eight finalists for the Terwilliger Center Award for Innovation in Attainable Housing.

“At a time when cities across the nation are struggling to build the homes their residents, businesses, and local economies require to thrive, ULI’s Terwilliger Center for Housing is privileged to share this year’s Kemp Award and Innovation Award finalists,” said Christopher Ptomey, executive director of the ULI Terwilliger Center for Housing. “Each of this year’s finalists demonstrates a creative blend of tools, strategies, and relationships aligned to deliver high-quality homes at costs affordable to moderate- and lower-income households. We congratulate each firm and development team for their exemplary work.”

The Kemp Award was established in 2008 in memory of Jack Kemp, a former secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and a national advisory board member of the Terwilliger Center. It recognizes developments that use innovative financing sources to provide attainable mixed-income housing, primarily focusing on households earning between 60 percent and 120 percent of the area median income.

The Terwilliger Center created the Award for Innovation in 2022 to recognize unique yet replicable developments that offer or preserve deeper affordability.

This year’s finalists for the Jack Kemp Excellence in Affordable and Workforce Housing award are:

This year’s finalists for the Terwilliger Center Award for Innovation in Attainable Housing are:

The jury for the two awards is chaired by Ron Terwilliger, founder of the ULI Terwilliger Center and chairman of Terwilliger Pappas Multifamily Partners.

Other jury members are Paul Bernard, president and CEO, Arlington Housing Corporation Inc., Arlington, Virginia; Rodger Brown, managing director of real estate development, Preservation of Affordable Housing, Boston; Payton Chung, managing partner, Westover Green, Washington, D.C.; Vicki Davis, managing partner, Urban Atlantic, Bethesda, Maryland; Adam Ducker, CEO, RCLCO, Bethesda, Maryland; Jill Ferrari, co-founder and managing partner, Renovare Development, Ypsilanti, Michigan; Michael Francescani, senior manager, CohnReznick, Boston; Sara Myerson, managing director, MSquared, Wellesley, Massachusetts; Josh Posner, founder and CEO, Rising Tide Development, Cambridge, Mass.; Stacy Silber, attorney, Lerch, Early & Brewer, Chtd., Bethesda, Maryland.; Michael Spotts, director of real estate development, Habitat for Humanity of Washington D.C. & Northern Virginia, Arlington, Virginia; and Silvia Urrutia, founder and CEO, U Developing LLC, Phoenix.

The winners will be announced in October during ULI’s Fall Meeting in Los Angeles. For questions about the housing awards program, email [email protected].