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Washington Fajardo

Washington Fajardo | Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Washington, DC, United States of America
Washington Fajardo

Biography

Washington Fajardo is an architect and urbanist. He coordinates Cities LAB at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Housing and Urban Development Division, working on institutional innovation, resilient urban design, and digital transformation and AI adoption in Latin American and Caribbean cities. He was Chief of Urban Planning of Rio de Janeiro and President of the Instituto Pereira Passos (2021-2022), and head of historic preservation at Rio City Hall (2009-2016). Loeb Fellow, Harvard Graduate School of Design (2019).

Sessions

12:00h
Thematic Roundtable | | HOWS BARCELONA | Housing - Urban Planning & Land Policy

Unlocking Land: Strategic Tools for Housing Delivery at Scale

Elisabet Cirici
Elisabet Cirici Government of Catalonia Director General of Spatial Planning, Urbanism and Architecture Speaker
Nyasha Harper-Michon
Nyasha Harper-Michon Archtivism Built Environment Climate, Equity & Communications Lead Moderator
Washington Fajardo
Washington Fajardo Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Cities LAB Coordinator, Sector Senior Specialist Speaker
Julie Schneider
Julie Schneider City of Detroit Director, Housing and Revitalization Department Speaker
Juraj Mach
Juraj Mach City of Bratislava Director of the Rental Housing Section Speaker

#Housing Capacity, #Housing Land Availability, #Land Activation, #Land Banking, #Spatial Planning, #Urban Management

2026-11-03 12:00 2026-11-03 12:45 Europe/Madrid Unlocking Land: Strategic Tools for Housing Delivery at Scale

Land supply is consistently identified as the primary structural bottleneck for housing delivery, especially in cities where demand, affordability pressures, and planning constraints converge. The session will examine the tools cities use to activate land for housing, addressing how land can be identified, planned, governed, and mobilised through public action, regulatory frameworks, and strategic coordination. It will also consider the role of public land, zoning, land value capture, and inter-institutional cooperation in creating housing opportunities that support affordability, urban quality, social value, and long-term public interest.

Stage: HOWS Barcelona
Tue 3
12:00h - 12:45h Stage: HOWS Barcelona All Passes
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