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3.5m
To restore affordability an additional 3.5m affordable housing units are needed by 2030.
Industry Statistics
An estimated 234,000 individuals experience homelessness in a year, with certain groups overrepresented in this population including youth, veterans, and Indigenous Peoples. How housing is financed has a significant impact on affordability for both home buyers and developers. Reducing borrowing costs to buyers and assisting in developer financing can help reduce the housing affordability gap.
Industry Problems
The world of design is inaccessible to the large majority for a number of systemic reasons such as:
Education
Language/terminology
RFP Process
Power structures
Youth disengagement (lack of connection and opportunity for jobs)
Lack of control over the design build process
What Currently Exists?
Computer Aided Design (CAD) software = very technical
Minecraft = accessible technology, but not realistic or buildable in reality
Training & Employment programs = outdated, no technology, no empowerment
Architectural firms, contractors, builders = incumbent system
Unique Value Proposition
Grey & Ivey offers a technology-enabled program that creates spatial agency by breaking down the barriers of the design-build process allowing for authentic community engagement.
Our Solution
Grey and Ivy facilitates and empowers the design-build process to create spatial agency in users. Much like how Minecraft taught us how to create our own worlds, we allow people to create their own structures - from play structures to tiny houses to entire communities - using AR and VR technology and sustainable architecture principles. After the design process is contextualized in the actual space using our technology, people can then build those structures.
Our solution results in:
Job creation and career options
Youth employment and empowerment
Knowledge transfer
Authentic community engagement
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