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There are no specific educational or professional
credentials required to participate in the Affordable Housing
Development Competition. Graduate students of diverse backgrounds
are encouraged to compete.
Students with educational or professional
experience in design, planning, public policy, law, management,
and advocacy will contribute different aspects to a development
proposal. We do request that participants have some familiarity
with housing issues and a strong desire to learn about affordable-housing
development.
Finding Teammates and a Development
Organization
Graduate students who wish to participate in the Affordable
Housing Development Competition should submit
an application to the student coordinating committee,
which is headed by Hattie Silberberg, at hsilberb@mit.edu,
Josh Zade, at jzade@mit.edu, and Tom DeSimone, at desimone@gsd.harvard.edu.
Interested undergraduate students will considered on a case-by-case basis. Please see student registration for more information.
The student coordinating committee will help students form
teams through a database and introductory
sessions. The sessions will explain how the competition
works and introduce students to one another. Once a group
of students has formed a team (mid-February), they must register
as a team via this web site.
Students do not need to establish a relationship with
a development organization before registering their team.
The competition sponsors and the student coordinating committee
will host meetings to:
- First, introduce the organizations and the development
sites, and,
- Second, finalize the pairings of student teams and development
organizations.
Attendance at these meetings is required to participate
in the competition. Please refer to the timeline
for dates and locations.
Students who currently have a working relationship with a
development organization are invited to encourage that organization
to participate. Interested organizations should apply
online. For more information on what's involved, please see
the How
To Participate section or contact Karen Wiener of CHAPA
at kwiener@chapa.org or Aaron Gornstein of CHAPA at aarong@chapa.org.
Team Requirements
At least two Boston-area universities must be represented
on each team. Based on past experience, each team must have
a minimum of three graduate student members to successfully
participate in the competition. Six graduate students seems
to be the maximum workable team size. However, a team can
include more than six members.
Each team also needs a faculty advisor. Students are
free to invite any faculty member to participate, whether
he or she is listed in the Resources
section or one who the students already have a relationship
with.
Your team should be able to address some technical issues
related to architectural design, project pro formas, and financial
feasibility. We recommed that you draw from diverse educational
and professional backgrounds. Teams should expect to spend
about 15 hours per week developing their proposals.
At present, up to eight teams will be allowed to compete. The number of teams may be increased depending on student interest.
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