An interdisciplinary team of 91探花graduate students and its proposal for a 69-unit affordable housing development in Tacoma’s Wedge neighborhood has won the 24th annual , held May 14 in San Francisco.
The team was organized by the , which is in the 91探花. Members were Ben Broesamle and Sam Yimparsit of the program, Zi Cai and Genevieve Hale-Case of the program, Mohammed Al-Humaid and Raymond Sayers of the and Martha Sassorossi, a graduate student in the
An initial field of 10 university teams was reduced to eight, then four for the final round, judged in San Francisco by a panel of housing developers, architects and financial partners. The other finalists were the California Polytechnic State University and the University of California, Los Angeles and Berkeley.
“Seattle, like every other major city in the U.S., is struggling in its attempt to confront a crises in affordability,” said , Runstad Center director. “That is why it is incumbent upon us and every real estate program in this country to train our students to help meet this challenge.”