Each year, ULI hosts several policy forums on such topics as smart growth, housing, transportation, and urban development. These forums are an opportunity for experts from the private, nonprofit, and public sectors to discuss important land use and real estate issues and to recommend steps for ULI, policy makers, and practitioners.

Just Published Reports

Infrastructure 2009: Pivot Point
Infrastructure 2009: Pivot Point warns that short-term stimulus funding for various road, transit, rail, and water projects offers no substitute for a concerted long-range U.S. effort to maintain national prosperity in a rapidly evolving and more competitive global marketplace. The report recommends a total revamping of how the country plans, funds, and implements infrastructure programs.

Marketing, Managing, and Maintaining Mixed-Income Communities
Community Catalyst Report Number 8—The 2008 Shaw Forum engaged participants to describe the components for success in managing and maintaining mixed-income housing. The discussion tended to be oriented toward mixed-income rental units, with less discussion about matters specific to owner-occupied mixed-income housing.

Climate, Land Use, and Energy (CLUE) Advisory Group Findings Report
At the 2007 ULI Fall Meeting in Las Vegas, the Trustees directed Chairman Todd Mansfield to form an Advisory Group to study and advise on the issues of climate change and energy and how ULI as an organization might best engage in these issues. The Climate, Land Use and Energy (CLUE) Advisory Group is made up of a diverse body of ULI members who span the fields of finance, investment, development, design and the insurance industries.

The Promise of Public-Private Partnerships: Principles and Proposals for the Next President
Report of the Forum on Privatization and Partnerships—During the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the Urban Land Institute Forum, participants examined the progress and problems of privatization and partnerships in military housing and considered the potential for broadening the principles and practices to other public needs. Their deliberations, as well as external research and other meetings, inform the findings and proposals in this report.