波士頓市長馬丁華殊（Martin J. Walsh）最近宣佈，設立市長的住宅創新實驗室，將由阮蘇珊（譯音，Susan Nguyen）及Marcy
Ostberg共同領導，致力於帶進設計思考及創新元素，以協助解決波士頓中等收入家庭所面對的住宅危機問題。
阮蘇珊持有哈佛大學設計學院碩士學位，Marcy
Ostberg獲有塔芙茨大學的市區、環境政策及計畫碩士。
馬丁華殊表示，全美迄今還沒有任何一個城市解決了中產家庭所面對的住宅危機問題，他要波士頓成為第一個能做到的城市。
住宅創新實驗室的初期工作，將由彭博慈善基金（Bloomberg
Philanthropies）資助。從2014年12月起，彭博慈善基金已宣佈了撥款給美國12個城市，在各自的城市內，成立“我團隊（i-teams）“，為城市所面對的挑戰性問題，帶進創新思考。
在未來18個月內，隸屬於市長的“新市區機器（New Urban
Mechanics (MONUM)）“辦公室的波士頓“我團隊”，將帶領市長的住宅創新實驗室和波士頓市的鄰里發展局（DND）合作。
住宅創新實驗室將要求“我團隊”探討在波士頓市內可降低建造，購買，擁有房屋等開銷的構想。
就如波士頓市長馬丁華殊的“容納一個改變的城市：波士頓2030“計畫所描繪的，地理人口預測顯示，在2010年到2030年間，波士頓將增加26,600戶人家。換言之，等於未來20年，人口會增長13%。但在今時今日的環境中，要建造中等價位的房屋，非常困難。市長的住宅創新實驗室將探討最好，最有效的方法，來打造可供20,000人居住的家庭單位。
MAYOR WALSH LAUNCHES HOUSING INNOVATION LAB
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Bloomberg-funded Team will Explore and Evaluate Solutions for Building, Buying, and Owning Middle Income Housing
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BOSTON - Monday, October 19, 2015 - Mayor Martin J. Walsh recently announced the creation of the Mayor's Housing Innovation Lab, co-led by Susan Nguyen and Marcy Ostberg, to bring design thinking and innovation into solving Boston's middle income housing challenge.
"Maintaining a strong middle class is critical to ensuring that Boston continues to be a thriving, diverse city where people want to live and employers want to locate," said Mayor Walsh. "Having Susan and Marcy in place to lead the i-team will help ensure that Boston remains a city that is affordable to people at all economic levels. No city in the United States has solved the middle income housing challenge yet; I want Boston to be the first."
The initial work of the Lab will be funded by a grant from Bloomberg Philanthropies. In December 2014, Bloomberg Philanthropies announcedgrants to 12 US cities to set up "i-teams" in their City to bring innovative thinking to challenging issues. For the next 18 months, Boston's i-team, a part of the Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics (MONUM), will lead the Mayor's Housing Innovation Lab in collaboration with the City's Department of Neighborhood Development (DND).
The development of the Housing Innovation Lab will require the i-team to explore ideas that will potentially drive down the cost to build, buy, and own homes in the City of Boston. The team will be actively seeking input from internal and external housing experts as well as from Boston residents to gather and generate potential ideas to solve this issue. Ideas that are both high-impact and highly feasible will be deployed as prototypes on an experimental basis throughout the City. Successful prototypes that indicate improvements in housing affordability will be brought to scale and will help inform the City's continued focus on middle income housing creation. The Lab will continue to gather ideas throughout the entire 18-month innovation program.
As outlined in the Walsh administration's "Housing a Changing City: Boston 2030" plan, demographic projections show Boston's workforce growing by 26,600 households between 2010 and 2030 - a nearly 13 percent increase over the next 20 years. However, in today's housing market, it can be extremely challenging to construct moderately-priced housing. To meet this growing demand, the Mayor's Housing Innovation Lab will examine how to best and most efficiently create the 20,000 workforce housing units called for in the plan by 2030.
For more information and to contact the Housing Innovation Lab:http://newurbanmechanics.org/boston/bostons-i-team
Biographies of Housing Innovation Lab Members
Susan Nguyen, Program Co-Manager
Susan is the Program Co-Manager for the i-team. She develops new methods of innovation to deliver quality products and services to residents and visitors. Susan previously worked as a Program Director for the Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics. Her background is in city planning, economics, design, and public engagement. Prior to joining the City of Boston, Susan holds a MA in Urban Planning from Harvard's Graduate School of Design and BA from Harvard College.
Marcy Ostberg, Program Co-Manager
Marcy is thrilled to join Boston's i-team as a Program Co-Manager, bringing her background in civic innovation, urban policy and education. She previously worked as a Strategic Project Manager at the Right Question Institute advancing a question formulation strategy used for problem solving in innovation, critical thinking in education and self-advocacy in social services. Previously she worked as a High School Biology Teacher at the Boston Day & Evening Academy. Her experiences as an urban educator drove her to explore innovative solutions to systemic and complex problems that face low-income families. Marcy holds a MA in Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning from Tufts University, an MEd in Secondary Biology from Franklin Pierce University, and a BS in Kinesiology from Gordon College.
Sabrina Dorsainvil, Civic Designer
Sabrina Dorsainvil is a Boston-based designer and illustrator whose work ranges from playful drawings to the development of strategic, human centered design solutions used to address complex issues such as housing, healthcare and human rights. She is fascinated by people; the way they move, speak, touch, interact and experience environments, objects and each other. She has worked with community based organizations, large corporate institutions, and international projects on issues regarding social, spatial and environmental justice. Her role as i-team civic designer will employ human centered design to assist in addressing the mayoral challenge of keeping Boston affordable to middle income families. Sabrina holds a BFA in Industrial Design for Massachusetts College of Art and Design and an MS in Design and Urban Ecologies from Parsons the New School.
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