Yale students win HUD Innovation in Affordable Housing Design Competition

The 2020 edition of the Innovation in Affordable Housing Student Design and Planning Competition, hosted by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development, recently selected the proposal by Yale University students as the winning entry. 

The brief asked to design a new mixed-use development for mixed-income residents on a site in Santa Fe, New Mexico, identified by the Santa Fe County Housing Authority.

Yale's team included students Helen Farley (M.Arch ‘20), Kelley Johnson (M.Arch '20), Eva Leung (MBA '21), and Jackson Lindsay (M.Arch '20).

"The proposal seeks to connect to the surrounding area and Santa Fe at large and promote resilient communities through paying homage to the vernacular Pueblos," explains Yale's proposal description, "bringing together residents through communal spaces at a variety of scales, passive environmental systems, and a lease to limited equity co-operative model."

The jury selected the entry from the University of Maryland, College Park as the Runner-Up. The two other finalists were University of California, Berkeley and University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

To learn more about the individual entries, watch the online presentation of all four student finalist teams below.