Housing, Access, and Inclusion: A Pacific Northwest Lens
Tue, Apr 22
|Nordic Northwest
How do we create housing that addresses some of the greatest challenges of our time? From climate change, resource scarcity, and new family patterns to influx and migration, income inequality, historic displacement, and gentrification-how do our cities keep up with the housing challenges of our time
Time & Location
Apr 22, 2025, 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM
Nordic Northwest, 8800 SW Oleson Rd, Portland, OR 97223, USA
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General Admission: $5
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Doors open at 4:00 pm with a no host bar of Pacific Northwest beer and wine for purchase.
How do we create housing that addresses some of the greatest challenges of our time? From climate change, resource scarcity, and new family patterns to influx and migration, income inequality, historic displacement, and gentrification —how do our cities keep up with the housing challenges of our time? Join us on Earth Day as we grapple with how we can rethink our models of housing and community-building.
For this program we’re joined by the Honorable Mayor Lacey Beaty of Beaverton who has been at the forefront of championing policies that focus on housing, sustainability, and accessibility, ensuring that Beaverton remains affordable and inclusive for all residents. Her forward-thinking on these issues garnered her a role on the Advisory Board of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, where she is deeply engaged on housing policy. Mayor Beaty will jumpstart conversation and be joined by architect Sergio Palleroni, director of the Center for Public Interest Design at PSU and co-founder of the Homelessness Research & Action Collaborative, who brings global insights from decades of work integrating sustainable practices to improve the lives of underserved communities worldwide, and another speaker TBA.
Presented in conjunction with Nordic Northwest's installation of the exhibition BOLIGLABORATORIUM: A DANISH HOUSING LAB, a joint initiative of the Danish Arts Foundation and Realdania. The U.S. premier of the exhibition is presented by Scan Design Foundation, whose mission is to support the cross-cultural exchange between Denmark and the U.S. The exhibition was first showcased at the 2023 Architectural Congress in Copenhagen and is on view at Nordic Northwest throughout April and May 2025.
Nordic Northwest is a honored to be partnering with WorldOregon on public programs related to this timely exhibition[JL1] .
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