Housing stability plays a critical role in public health, economic resilience, and community wellbeing. This program explores innovative development strategies that connect housing, healthcare partnerships, cooperative ownership models, and modular construction to expand access to safe and affordable housing. Jeremy Liu, CEO of Creative Development Partners, will share how mission-based real estate development can improve health outcomes, strengthen communities, and create sustainable pathways to prosperity in under-resourced neighborhoods.

Jeremy Liu, CEO of Creative Development Partners (CDP), will present recent initiatives that leverage real estate development, complex financing, creative placemaking, and small business support to build community prosperity while maintaining multiple bottom-line outcomes: financial viability, environmental sustainability, and measurable community benefit. The presentation will examine emerging approaches such as health-prescribed housing, partnerships with healthcare providers to improve health outcomes through stable housing; cooperative homeownership models that expand access to long-term financial stability; and modular off-site construction strategies that can accelerate housing production while improving quality, safety, and cost control.

Participants will gain insight into how architects, planners, and development professionals can contribute to housing solutions that improve public health, expand equitable homeownership opportunities, and deliver resilient, sustainable communities. The session highlights the role of design and development strategies in addressing housing shortages, improving occupant health and safety, and strengthening the social and economic vitality of underserved neighborhoods.

Learning Objectives

1. Explain the relationship between housing stability and public health outcomes, and how housing interventions can improve wellness for under-resourced populations.

2. Identify health risks associated with unstable or inadequate housing, including the impacts on vulnerable and tenuously housed populations.

3. Evaluate holistic development strategies that integrate housing, healthcare partnerships, and community investment to improve health, safety, and welfare outcomes.

4. Describe cooperative homeownership models and their role in expanding equitable access to housing, long-term financial stability, and community resilience.

5. Recognize the opportunities and challenges of modular off-site construction, including its potential to improve construction safety, quality control, speed of delivery, and affordability in housing development.

Credits: 1 LU|HSW Pending