NLIHC’s 2019 Housing Policy Forum: Seizing the Moment for Bold Solutions taking place in Washington, DC, March 27-29, 2019 will explore creative ways affordable housing advocates can get their stories out. The U.S. affordable housing crisis received national media attention in news outlets like The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Huffington Post, and many others in 2018, and a number of policy-makers, including possible 2020 presidential candidates, have responded with bold new proposals. How can we leverage this new national attention on affordable housing, keeping it fresh and top-of-mind and breaking through to new audiences? The forum will explore creative ways to build public and policy maker awareness by engaging investigative reporting and using visual media like short documentaries. Experts will share ways to pitch and produce stories that go beyond the printed page and tips on getting the right storytellers to share the right stories. Register to attend the forum today at: http://www.nlihcforum.org/
The overall focus of the 2019 Policy Forum will be seizing this unique moment in America to achieve bold solutions to homelessness and housing poverty. 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 to advance real solutions.
Invited and confirmed Forum speakers include Senators Kamala Harris (D-CA), Todd Young (R-IN), and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Matthew Desmond, author of the Pulitzer-Prize winning book Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City.
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 following the 2018 mid-terms
- 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
- New opportunities for achieving significant new investments in the national Housing Trust Fund
- 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
- 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
- The latest trends in affordable housing research
- Low-income resident leadership
- And more
A limited number of shared-lodging hotel scholarships will be awarded on a first-come-first-served basis to low-income residents who are NLIHC members and who pay their own Forum registration fee. Scholarships will be awarded to ensure a broad geographic distribution. A special session for low-income residents will be held on the morning of March 19. Apply for a scholarship online at: http://www.nlihcforum.org/venue or download a fillable PDF at: https://bit.ly/2pZvn1i
Learn more about the Forum and register today at: http://www.nlihcforum.org/