Innovative Collaboration Shows Adaptive Reuse Can Ease Homelessness

FAU students, Glavovic Studio architects, and AHF’s Housing Division to present joint project highlighting faster, less expensive way to create more truly affordable housing

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Florida Atlantic University (FAU) School of Architecture, in conjunction with Glavovic Studio and AHF’s Healthy Housing Foundation, will host a short press conference followed by an expert panel on Tuesday, October 22^nd to present the results of a first-of-its-kind collaboration between a leading academic institution, a global nonprofit organization, and a for-profit architecture studio. The project was created earlier this year to advance innovative solutions to the affordable housing and homelessness crises in Florida and nationwide. Currently, tens of millions of Americans are considered “rent-burdened,” and the United States is short more than seven million affordable and available rental homes.

AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the world’s largest global HIV/AIDS organization and an advocate for affordable housing, and the award-winning Glavovic Studio, a Fort Lauderdale-based architecture firm, joined with FAU’s School of Architecture to identify adaptive reuse opportunities using three different perspectives.

”Our students developed a unique guidebook to help identify which kinds of existing vacant properties may be most viable for putting adaptive reuse into practice and creating affordable housing projects,” said Joseph Choma, PhD, Director of FAU’s School of Architecture. “We joined this partnership to amplify the voices of the next generation in solving generational problems and hope the students’ design proposals become new models for adaptive reuse and sustainable living in Florida and beyond.

WHAT:	“Adaptive Reuse for Affordable Housing” Event
WHEN:	Tuesday, October 22^nd
	Press conference: 12pm ET
	Panel discussion: 12:30pm ET – 1:30pm ET
WHERE:	Florida Atlantic University (FAU) Metro Lab at 111 E Las Olas Blvd., Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33301
WHO:	Joseph Choma, PhD, Director, FAU’s School of Architecture (moderator)
	Jeff Huber, Professor at FAU and Principal, Brooks+Scarpa
	Yuji Kitamura, FAU Alumnus '24 and Graduate Student, Cornell University
	Margi Glavovic Nothard, Principal, Glavovic Studio
	Ebonni Chrispin, Legislative Affairs and Community Engagement Director, AHF and Healthy Housing Foundation