2021 Construction & Design Co-Winner: BamCore
Windsor, California
Since April 2020, “unprecedented spikes in lumber prices have added more than $24,000 to the price of the average, new single-family home, and nearly $9,000 to the price of a multifamily home,” according to the National Home builders Association. BamCore’s innovative bamboo-based framing solution has the potential to address this crippling rise in material costs, provide a more climate positive supply chain, reduce the need for skilled labor and speed up the build time by more than 50 percent, while producing a much more energy-efficient home.
2021 Construction & Design Co-Winner: Curtis + Ginsberg Architects (C+GA)
New York, New York
Often sustainability and affordability are competitive goals for housing development. However, C+GA is pioneering new approaches to break through the budgetary barriers that previously made building energy-efficient and affordable multifamily housing difficult. C+GA has designed the largest completed Passive House affordable housing building in the United States. Their primary strategy in designing energy-efficient Passive House standards is to reduce the operational cost of buildings, in turn, maintaining affordability long after a building is built, while providing healthier buildings for residents.
2021 Finance Winner: Homeownership with Keep by Framework
New York, New York
Framework is a for-profit social enterprise that supports access to homeownership by widening access and closing knowledge gaps. Framework helps people understand the process of buying a home — every nuance, every expectation, every pathway.
Framework’s platform, previously delivered branded as the Keep by Framework app, helps home buyers understand the process to purchase a home and how best to maintain and stay in that home for the long term. With an emphasis on first-time, first-generation potential homeowners, Framework guides users through the entire process of purchasing a home, with a keen focus on assisting homebuyers confronting structural and persistent racial barriers and on democratizing the homebuying process.
2021 Public Policy & Regulatory Reform Winner: Impact Justice / The Homecoming Project
New York, New York
Thousands of Americans are not only priced out of affordable housing but are often intentionally left out of many housing options. The Homecoming Project is a program that ensures successful reentry back into communities by providing safe and stable housing and a welcoming host. Formerly incarcerated people are able to integrate more easily into the community by quick placement into stable housing right out of prison.
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