Build Baby Build

Is the answer to our housing crisis…more housing?

 Monday, March 4
Fitler Club Ballroom, 1 South 24th Street
Happy Hour, 5-6pm | Program, 6-7:30pm

Join us for another installment of The Citizen’s Real Estate Development… for Good, powered by Drexel University’s Lindy Institute for Urban Innovation and Fitler Club, on—literally—building a better, more inclusive, and prosperous Philadelphia.

Mo Rushdy, of Riverwards Group and chair of the Philadelphia Accelerator Fund, which plans to finance 6,000 affordable homes in the next few years; Leslie Smallwood-Lewis, of Mosaic Development Partners, which is building both middle income and tiny home communities in neighborhoods of color. Moderated by Diana Lind, Communications & Publications Director, Penn Institute for Urban Research.

$5 entry. Free to Philadelphia Citizen and Fitler Club members. Members, please fill out the form below and click Apply Coupon on the subtotal screen for your discount. For questions, please contact membership@thephiladelphiacitizen.org.

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In its third year, The Philadelphia Citizen’s Development … For Good is a year-long speaker series that smartly delves into the economic and cultural difference that enlightened and intentional real estate development can make in our city. For decades, real-estate developers have had an outsized effect on the trajectory of growth in Philadelphia. And now a new generation of visionaries, deal-makers and builders are following suit, driven by the merging of social impact and bottom-line imperatives. 

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