2015 Housing Legislative Forum and Leadership Reception! - January 23, 2015

Join NLIHC and other affordable housing advocates from around the country as we engage with renowned thought and policy leaders to Educate, Advocate, Activate – NOW! The 2015 NLIHC Housing Legislative Forum will be packed with dynamic, powerhouse presenters, speakers and panelists — some of the best and brightest minds in the industry.

• EDUCATE – With the nation’s leading housing researchers on the link between housing and the human condition: Matthew Desmond (Harvard University), Stephanie Ettinger De Cuba (Children’s HealthWatch), and Ingrid Gould Ellen (Furman Center, NYU/Wagner School).
• ADVOCATE - With our national partners on housing finance reform, the federal budget, tax reform and regulatory changes needed in federal housing and homeless programs: Mark Calabria (Cato Institute), Nan Roman (National Alliance to End Homelessness), Barbara Sard (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities), Ali Solis (Enterprise Community Partners), and Joe Ventrone (National Association of Realtors).
• ACTIVATE – With state housing coalition and resident leaders from around the country led by NLIHC Policy Committee Co-Chairs: Daisy Franklin, Public Housing Resident Network (CT), and Rachael Myers, Washington Low Income Housing Alliance (WA).

We will also be joined by key leaders from the Department of Housing and Urban Development as well as Housing Authorizers, Tax Writers, Budgeters and Appropriators from Capitol Hill, including Gustavo Velasquez (Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity as HUD), Jason Woolwine (Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Housing, Transportation and Related Agencies, Majority), Meaghan McCarthy (Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Housing, Transportation and Related Agencies, Minority, and Adam Carasso (Senate Finance Committee, Minority).

Other highlights of the Forum include keynote speakers:

The Honorable Julián Castro, US Department of Housing and Urban Development and Darren Walker, President of the Ford Foundation.

We will also be honoring Dr. William Apgar with the Cushing Niles Dolbeare Lifetime Service Award and OMB Director and Former HUD Secretary, Shaun Donovan with the Edward W. Brooke Housing Leadership Award at our Housing Leadership Reception the evening of March 3!

Join us for the 2015 Housing Legislative Forum and Leadership Reception, March 1-3, 2015!

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