Memo to Members

Early-Bird Registration for NLIHC’s March 27-29 Housing Policy Forum: Seizing the Moment for Bold Solutions Ends Friday, March 1

Feb 25, 2019

Register for NLIHC’s 2019 Housing Policy Forum: Seizing the Moment for Bold Solutions by this Friday, March 1, to take advantage of the early-bird registration rate! The Forum will take place in Washington, DC, March 27-29. Confirmed and invited speakers include Senators Kamala Harris (D-CA) and Todd Young (R-IN), Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA), and Pulitzer-Prize-winning author of Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City Matt Desmond.  Register to attend at: http://www.nlihcforum.org/

Awareness about the affordable housing crisis in America is growing, and federal policymakers on both sides of the aisle – including some who are running for president in 2020 - are responding; some have put forward bold legislative proposals to address the housing needs of low-income people. The forum will focus on leveraging this momentum to achieve real solutions to homelessness and housing poverty in America.

The Forum will provide an array of opportunities to engage with elected officials and with affordable housing advocates, thought-leaders, policy experts, researchers, housing providers, low-income residents, and congressional staff.

Forum topics include: 

  • The state of affordable housing in 2019, recent successes and challenges, and emerging opportunities
  • The state of play related to affordable housing on Capitol Hill in 2019
  • Achieving greater racial equity in housing
  • The growing Opportunity Starts at Home multi-sector affordable housing movement
  • The U.S. eviction epidemic and its solutions
  • How the national Housing Trust Fund is getting started building homes for the lowest income people and families
  • How advocates and policy makers can ‘Undesign the Redline’
  • Best practices in non-partisan voter engagement and ways to get candidates for public office to make affordable housing a priority in their campaigns
  • Working with and making housing an issue with the media
  • The future of public housing
  • Achieving development without displacement
  • Research on the issues and solutions related to housing for extremely vulnerable populations
  • The keys to state, local, and resident-led organizing
  • Ensuring equitable housing recovery in the wake of recent and future disasters
  • Tribal and rural affordable housing needs and solutions
  • Low-income resident leadership
  • And more

Learn more about the Forum and register today at: http://www.nlihcforum.org/

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