Innovative Collaboration Shows Adaptive Reuse Can Ease Homelessness

FAU students, Glavovic Studio architects, and AHF’s Housing Division to present joint project highlighting faster, less expensive way to create more truly affordable housing

Florida Atlantic University (FAU) School of Architecture, in conjunction with Glavovic Studio and AHF’s Healthy Housing Foundation, will host a short press conference followed by an expert panel on Tuesday, October 22^nd to present the results of a first-of-its-kind collaboration between a leading academic institution, a global nonprofit organization, and a for-profit architecture studio. The project was created earlier this year to advance innovative solutions to the affordable housing and homelessness crises in Florida and nationwide. Currently, tens of millions of Americans are considered “rent-burdened,” and the United States is short more than seven million affordable and available rental homes.

AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the world’s largest global HIV/AIDS organization and an advocate for affordable housing, and the award-winning Glavovic Studio, a Fort Lauderdale-based architecture firm, joined with FAU’s School of Architecture to identify adaptive reuse opportunities using three different perspectives.

”Our students developed a unique guidebook to help identify which kinds of existing vacant properties may be most viable for putting adaptive reuse into practice and creating affordable housing projects,” said Joseph Choma, PhD, Director of FAU’s School of Architecture. “We joined this partnership to amplify the voices of the next generation in solving generational problems and hope the students’ design proposals become new models for adaptive reuse and sustainable living in Florida and beyond.

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