Wellness Communities & Real Estate Resources

FLIPBOOKS

2023 Initiative Trends Report 

Inspiration & Innovation: Representative Wellness Real Estate Projects

Wellness Communities & Real Estate Framework – Flipbook | PDF

2021 Initiative Trends Report

REPORTS

UNITED STATES

GWI: Wellness Communities & Real Estate Initiative 2021 Trends

Urban Land Institute Building Healthy Places Initiative Toolkit

Health and Social Equity in Real Estate: State of the Market (ULI)

Health and Social Equity in Real Estate: Examples from the Field (ULI)

The Pandemic and the Public Realm: Global Innovations for Health, Social Equity and Sustainability (ULI)

ULI Sustainability Outlook 2021

A Rising Demand for Active Buildings: Center for Active Design

America at Home Study: Consumer Research into Changing Perceptions on Home and Community During a Global Health Pandemic

MIT Real Estate Innovation Lab: Distributing Density: Middle-scale Housing for Sustainable Communities

MIT Real Estate Innovation Lab: The Financial Impact of Healthy Buildings

2020 Community Wellbeing Index: BU School of Public Health & Sharecare

CANADA

Conference Board of Canada: Community Wellbeing – A Framework for Design Professionals

Government of Canada/Indigenous Services Canada: Community Wellbeing Index

EUROPE

World Economic Forum: A Framework for the Future of Real Estate 2021

21st Century New Communities: Raising the Ambition

The Thriving Places Index identifies local conditions fort wellbeing and measures whether those conditions are being delivered fairly and sustainably.

What Works Center for Wellbeing: What is Community Wellbeing?

SENIOR HOUSING

International Council on Active Aging, Creating Your Blueprint for a Wellness-based Community

ARTICLES

America At Home: Consumers Place More Importance on Wellbeing

Overabove: Living the New Wellness

Liberate Health 2021: Housing is Key to Health

IDEO: Every Business Has a Part to Play in Building Better Health

Globalization and Health: Social Capital and Public Health – Responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic

BOOKS

Building Small: A Toolkit for Real Estate Entrepreneurs, Civic Leaders and Great Communities, Jim Heid, 2021, Urban Land Institute

Healthy Buildings: How Indoor Spaces Drive Performance and Productivity, Joseph G. Allen, John D. Macomber, 2020, Harvard University Press

Brave New Home: Our Future is Smarter, Simpler, Happier Housing, Diana Lind, 2020, Bold Type Books