The 2009 I. Donald Terner Prize for Innovation and Leadership in Affordable Housing was presented to ICON Architecture's Maverick Landing at the Berkeley Policy Forum in February 2009. Click to read the press release and details about Maverick Landing.
The Terner Prize recognizes successful and innovative affordable housing projects and their leadership teams. The objective is to spread Don’s vision and principles to the planning, design and development professions as well as to public officials, community representatives, housing activists, and government and private funders by identifying best practices in the field.
Don, the founding president of BRIDGE Housing, was a true social entrepreneur who had enormous impact on the field. For Don, success lay in inspiring all sectors of society, and all people, to make their best contribution—and then go a little further—to find new ways to provide for the community. As Don used to say, BRIDGE is committed to doing "whatever it takes," whether it’s new financing strategies, improved building techniques or more inventive approaches to planning.
Don died tragically on April 3, 1996, in a plane crash with U.S. Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown and 31 others. His legacy of building large volumes of quality, affordable housing will be carried on by BRIDGE and by all of the other non-profits, government agencies and individuals he inspired over the years.
The Terner Prize is administered by the Center for Community Innovation at the University of California, Berkeley.
