Ron Terwilliger to give Dunlop Lecture at Harvard: Housing America's Increasingly Diverse Population
A respected business leader and strong supporter of affordable housing in the U.S. and around the world, J. Ronald Terwilliger is chairman of the Enterprise Community Partners, vice chairman Enterprise Community Investment, and chairman emeritus of Trammel Crow Residential, the largest developer of multi-family housing in the United States. Next Monday, September 30 at 6pm, he will come to Cambridge to give the 14th Annual John T. Dunlop Lecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
Terwilliger, who is also past chairman of both the Urban Land Institute and Habitat for Humanity International, says that American housing policy needs to be seriously reexamined. “The U.S. does not have a satisfactory housing situation today,” says the Harvard Business School alumnus. “More than 20 million households in this country spend more than half of their income on housing. The proper measure of whether we are doing our best to provide adequate housing for all Americans is not the U.S. homeownership rate, nor the homeownership subsidies that we provide, it is the cost burdens that Americans are shouldering. And today, too many Americans are shouldering too much burden.”