Thursday, June 13, 2024 • 8:30 am-5:00 pm
UIC Student Center West / Thompson Rooms A, B, & C
828 S. Wolcott Ave., Chicago
An all-day summit addressing the need for additional housing models in Chicago.
Produced by Pride Action Tank, a Project of AIDS Foundation of Chicago, with support from:
Knight Family Foundation
UIC Gender and Sexuality Center
Windy City Times
The Tiny Homes movement can offer creative, quicker, lower-cost, and beautiful solutions for dignified housing for those seeking independent living. The Tiny Home Summit 2.0 will bring together experts from Chicago and across the U.S. to discuss solutions to meet the urgent need for homes for the unstably housed, those needing affordable housing, and others seeking free-standing, smaller-footprint living in Chicago.
The first Tiny Homes Summit, focused on youth experiencing homelessness, was hosted in April 2016. Topics included financing, housing as HIV prevention, public policy issues, and strategies for developing a tiny home community for youth experiencing homelessness in Chicago. The summit also displayed a model of the winning design from the Tiny Homes Competition, hosted by the American Institute of Architects in Chicago, Pride Action Tank, Alphawood Foundation, Landon Bone Baker, and Windy City Times. You can watch videos from the first Tiny Homes Summit here.
Registration is $75 before May 15 or $85 on or after May 15 at https://action.aidschicago.org/TinyHomeSummit Student Rate is $20. Breakfast and lunch are included in the ticket price. All panels will be filmed for later posting online.