BuildCasa is thrilled to be selected for the 2024 class of the Terner Labs Housing Venture Lab at the University of California, Berkeley. The program offers comprehensive support for housing startups including a grant, mentorship, and access to Terner’s network of policy makers, developers, experts, and researchers. Thank you to Michelle Boyd, Kara Murray-Badal, Molly Turner, and Muhammad T. Alameldin for your support and guidance!
Today, we’re thrilled to announce our 2024 Housing Venture Lab cohort! 🎉 These six ventures from across the United States bring innovative programs, technologies and models for addressing some of our most pressing housing challenges. Together, they are improving lives in the short term and building transformative solutions for a better housing future. Join us in welcoming: ⭐ Firm Foundation Community Housing works to end involuntary homelessness by building permanent supportive housing on vacant church land ⭐ FwdSlash connects housing developers, community organizations and Medicaid dollars to address the role of housing in health outcomes ⭐ ROC USA empowers homeowners in manufactured home communities to buy the land under their homes ⭐ BuildCasa is on a mission to build 100,000 homes in existing neighborhoods by leveraging California’s new lot-splitting law ⭐ Appraisal Insights fights racial bias in home appraisals through anti-bias curriculum and creates pathways to recourse for homeowners who receive unfair appraisals ⭐ LadderUp Housing creates rent-to-own opportunities for low- to moderate-income people in the Midwest Congratulations to these six ventures, and thank you to those who make our work possible, including the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Wells Fargo, JPMorganChase, the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, The Ivory Foundation, the Howard and Irene Levine Family Foundation, the Making Waves Foundation, the Ballmer Group, and many more supporters, advisors, coaches, and graduate student fellows. #housinginnovation #affordablehousing #housingequity