IVORY INNOVATIONS

The ivory prize is an annual award recognizing ambitious, feasible, and scalable solutions to housing affordability. The prize is designed to award innovators for their efforts and provide material support to advance their projects. The search committee looks for solutions that combine elements of finance, policy, and design/construction. Innovators include small and large scale companies, non-profits, or government entities. This also includes the hack-a-house program. Hack-a-house pathway education program is dedicated to catalyzing high impact innovations in housing affordability which seeks to promote the most compelling ideas in housing affordability by working across sectors, providing monetary awards for groundbreaking innovations and leveraging its network and resources.