Utah Builder Announces Second Annual Housing Affordability Competition
The 2020 Ivory Prize for Housing Affordability, presented by Ivory Innovations, is now accepting applications. Now in its second year, the Ivory Prize awards a total of $200,000 to winners that have developed ambitious, feasible and scalable solutions to housing affordability within three focus areas: construction and design; finance; and public policy and regulatory reform.
In 2019, 126 nominations and applications representing organizations in 28 states were judged by an advisory board representing some of the top minds in housing from across the United States. Ivory Innovations is an outgrowth of Ivory Homes' commitment to community and making a significant impact on housing affordability, both in Utah and across the United States.
"Housing availability and affordability will be one of the defining issues of our time," said Clark Ivory, CEO of the Clark and Christine Ivory Foundation and Ivory Homes, which has been Utah’s largest home builder for more than 30 years. "The Ivory Prize for Housing Affordability rewards those who are thinking outside of the box about how to make housing more affordable and abundant."
2019 winners included:
- Factory_OS (Construction and Design) in San Francisco
- The Alley Flat Initiative (Policy and Regulatory Reform) in Austin
- Landed (Finance Co-Winner) in San Francisco
- Home Partners of America (Finance Co-Winner) in Chicago