On April 11, 2025, USC School of Architecture will host the symposium, Housing 10x: A Platform to Accelerate Innovative Responses to the Housing and Climate Crises.
Organized by the Chase L. Leavitt Graduate Building Science Program and the School of Architecture, in partnership with USC Dornsife College and USC Sol Price School of Public Policy, this symposium will explore the potential to accelerate efforts of architects applying innovative, high-productivity construction methods to deliver affordable housing while ensuring resilience to climate-worsened disasters.
Los Angeles faces a critical shortage of housing units, a crisis made worse by the loss of over 12,000 structures due to devastating wildfires. Los Angeles already had the fewest number of homes per adult of any major U.S. City and construction of new housing units is notoriously slow, inefficient, and unaffordable to most Angelenos. The metropolitan region now comes to terms with an unprecedented recovery and rebuilding effort with a greater understanding of the risks and costs associated with conventional policies and practices governing buildings, infrastructures and urban landscapes.