About Us

The Ivory Prize is an annual award recognizing ambitious, feasible, and scalable solutions to housing affordability. With support from our advisory board, our team works to identify and track innovations that creatively integrate elements of construction, finance, and/or policy.

Each year, we gather the housing industry’s leading experts, entrepreneurs, policymakers, and professionals to discuss the state of housing affordability innovation and what is needed to make further progress. See our event calendar to join us at an upcoming gathering.

We engage the next generation of housing innovators through our Student Associate program at the University of Utah, the Ivory Fellowship at Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies, and Hack-A-House - an annual 24-hour competition for college and grad students nationwide to brainstorm and pitch innovative solutions to advance housing affordability.

Through our partnership with Ivory Homes, we put innovation into practice by implementing promising solutions identified through the Ivory Prize. With over 1500 units of affordable housing underway in the Salt Lake City area, we test and scale ideas that can drive real-world affordability.