Housing affordability continues to be a critical issue in the United States. Meagan Ehlenz's research explores the potential for scaling shared equity homeownership (SEH) as a strategy to address Arizona’s growing housing affordability crisis.

Moving abroad is an increasingly trending topic in the United States. This talk presents findings from a recent study on US emigration that included qualitative interviews and a large cross-sectional survey in which participants cited infrastructure concerns around housing, transportation, public and recreational spaces, and healthcare as motivating their desires to seek futures outside of the U.S.

Heather Whiteman Runs Him is a citizen of the Apsaalooke/Crow Nation. She is the Director of the Tribal Justice Clinic and Associate Clinical Professor at University of Arizona Rogers College of Law where she also teaches courses on tribal water rights, tribal courts, and tribal law.

This lecture will lead to a greater understanding of how Indigenous people are now viewed as the gatekeepers of biodiversity. Indigenous people in their territories focus on something other than gross domestic product (GDP) but instead on quality and defined relationships within the context of where they live.

Residents of America’s single-family home neighborhoods have adapted their car-oriented built environments in resourceful and creative ways. Yet, adaptations of garages and driveways are relatively underexamined. This lecture will present research that helps to theorize garages and driveways as an adaptive neighborhood infrastructure that may help households and communities thrive

The NOMA Say It Loud exhibition celebrates the work of diverse architects and designers, showcasing the contributions of underrepresented voices in the design industry. Curated by the National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA), this exhibition highlights innovation, inclusion, and the pursuit of equity in architecture and the built environment.