Date:
Location:
The offical event page with registration link can be found here.
“Hack-A-House 2021” is an online, 24-hour “hackathon”-style competition that will start on Friday, September 24 and continue through Saturday, September 25. Hosted by Ivory Innovations and co-sponsored by the Joint Center for Housing Studies and others, this is a nationwide competition in which students from around the country – working individually or in teams – have 24 hours to develop an innovative solution to a problem related to housing affordability. The top entries in three categories – Finance, Policy & Regulatory Reform, and Construction & Design -- will each receive a $3,000 prize; one other entry will receive a $1,000 prize. Last year, a team of four master in urban planning students at GSD won one of these prizes for a proposal on how to “convert excess parking to affordable manufactured housing in a post-COVID world.”
More information, including how to register is online at https://www.jchs.harvard.edu/calendar/hack-house-2021. While students can form their own teams, students interested in joining or forming a team also can contact me directly at david_luberoff@harvard.edu.