UCLA Ziman Center for Real Estate

UCLA’s Housing as Health Care Initiative supports and organizes symposia and speaker panels on topics focused on critical issues bridging the built environment and health, including housing affordability, healthy communities, housing-based care management for seniors, homelessness, healthy building practices, and more.  These events bring together leaders from academia, policy, community and industry to discuss and share diverse perspectives on the issues at hand.

The UCLA Housing, Neighborhood and Health Series features presentations of scholarly research in the intersection of housing, the built environment and health.  In partnership with centers across the UCLA Anderson School of Management, the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, and the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, the series presents academic research on critical housing as health care issues followed by discussion of policy implications and real-world applications.

With an increasingly urgent need to adapt to our changing climate, the built environment offers unique opportunities for programs and new practices that can protect and improve human health.  In order to effectively capitalize on these opportunities, it is critical to engage stakeholders from real estate, development, public health, public policy, climate adaptation, and other industries.  In partnership with the UCLA Center for Healthy Climate Solutions and the Center for Impact@Anderson, the Climate Change, Health and Built Environment Discussion Series lays the groundwork for understanding the challenges of climate threats and highlights cross-sectoral practices that can help communities respond and become more resilient.