Stoneleigh Fellow Vincent Reina participated on a panel discussion at the Weitzman School of Design about the practice of adaptively converting vacant office buildings into residential units in cities.
Penn’s Architecture department hosted a panel at the Weitzman School of Design to discuss the practice of adaptively converting vacant office buildings into residential units in cities.
The Oct. 29 panel included six experts in the field with backgrounds in architecture, journalism, and finance who spoke about the benefits and considerations of applying adaptive reuse on a large scale. […]
Weitzman city and regional planning professor Vincent Reina, who worked as an urban housing policy advisor in the Biden-Harris administration, sat on the panel. He emphasized a need for “actual affordable units,” given that there is an estimated “shortage of 65,000 affordable, available housing units” in the city.
