As housing affordability challenges increasingly impact employee recruitment and retention, institutions across sectors are rethinking how their real estate assets can support workforce needs.
While healthcare systems have been at the forefront of developing proximity-based workforce housing, their strategies offer valuable lessons for colleges and universities facing similar pressures.
In this session, we will explore how hospital and healthcare campuses are leveraging underutilized land, public–private partnerships, and streamlined land-use approaches to deliver attainable housing for nurses, physicians, technicians, and other essential staff. The discussion will highlight how these projects align with institutional missions, improve employee retention, reduce commute burdens, and strengthen operational stability.
Featuring real estate leaders from major healthcare systems, the panel will examine deal structures, financing tools, governance considerations, and community engagement strategies that have made these developments possible.
Most importantly, the conversation will translate these cross-sector insights into actionable takeaways for higher education leaders demonstrating how similar models can be adapted to address faculty and staff workforce housing needs on and around college campuses.
Attendees will leave with a practical framework for evaluating land assets, structuring partnerships, and advancing equitable, financially viable workforce housing solutions within their own institutions.