This panel will highlight public and private sector progress that created, expanded and tested public/private partnerships over the last year to accelerate housing development. Panelists will talk about successful projects and the key initiatives, policy and permitting reforms, financing innovations that led to completed projects. They will also discuss challenges arising from procurement and permitting, risk allocation and time from closing on project documentation to completion.
Projects completed this past year demonstrate public private collaboration can accelerate housing delivery when governments simplify processes, share targeted risk, and hold all parties accountable to community outcomes. Experience also shows that success is tied collaborative deal design, clear incentives, and early and sustained focus on financing.
The panel’s conversation will identify practical lessons addressing risk allocation, community engagement, financing innovations, procurement and permitting and how the public and private sector can design and build better partnerships and more housing to serve local needs. We will talk about the questions that are on everyone’s mind, many arising from what worked and what didn’t.
