Event Description
Join us for this networking mixer w/ Guest Presentation by Jason John Paul Haskins, AIA Championing Housing: A Call to Action for Designers and Developers Light appetizers and beverages will be provided.
Jason Haskins from AIA Austin’s Housing Advocacy Committee will walk us through their experience advocating for diverse housing solutions as the City of Austin worked to revise its zoning ordinances, technical codes, and permitting processes. His presentation will show how designers and developers can be powerful advocates for innovative housing solutions. By harnessing creativity and expertise, we can shape vibrant communities and ensure that everyone has access to the communities they deserve. If it can be done in Austin …….!
About our speaker
Jason John Paul Haskins, AIA + NCARB + LEED AP BD+C, is the Director of Architecture at h+uo architects in Austin, Texas and the Chair of AIA Austin’s Housing Advocacy Committee. Jason’s professional practice focuses on enacting and embodying solidarity, subsidiarity, and human dignity in the built environment. Jason’s affordable housing experience spans the gamut of housing typologies, design styles, affordability programs, and funding mechanisms and includes architecture as well as development.. Participatory design, multi-disciplinary planning, emerging technologies, and data-driven design play significant roles in their process.
This event is free to attend and all TAAHP members and future members are welcome.
Sponsorships are available. $500 (your logo will be included on the event page on the taahp.org website and in promotional emails and your organization will be recognized at the event).
About TAAHP Local & Municipal Affairs Community Advisory Groups
Launched in April 2024, Local and Municipal Affairs (LAMA) Community Advisory Groups are on a mission to ensure that TAAHP member interests are represented in cities and counties across the state. When you participate in a LAMA community advisory group, it’s not just a contribution, but a leveraging of your expertise at the local level of government (cities, counties, special districts) in Texas to positively affect affordable housing policy and regulation. The primary objective is to monitor, report, and provide expertise in a responsible and consistent manner, both proactively and in response to important actions by local governments where affordable housing development may be impacted.
At its inception, four LAMA Community Advisory Groups will represent the metro regions of Dallas/Ft. Worth, Houston, San Antonio, and Austin. Each will be established and led by a TAAHP-designated member. LAMA community advisory groups have wide latitude regarding the issues they cover with respect to the local governments assigned. These may include, but are not limited to:
- review and input on long-range development planning,
- neighborhood planning,
- charter reviews,
- zoning,
- RONO’s,
- affordable housing policies,
- general obligation bond packages for housing,
- legislative agendas,
- funding notices and proposal requests, etc.
These groups may also coordinate networking events and property tours for current and prospective TAAHP members and policymakers.
If you would like to participate in a LAMA group (aside from attending this networking event), please click here to complete this interest form and TAAHP will connect you to your selected region’s lead for upcoming events and meetings (you must be a TAAHP member to participate. If you are not already a member, you can join online at taahp.org/join.
If you have any questions about this initiative, please email [email protected] or [email protected].