Senator Todd Young (R-IN) will be a keynote speaker at NLIHC’s 2019 Housing Policy Forum: Seizing the Moment for Bold Solutions in Washington, DC, March 27-29. Senator Young is the lead author of the “Task Force on the Impact of the Affordable Housing Crisis Act” and the “Housing Choice Voucher Mobility Demonstration Act.” He will discuss these legislative proposals—one to establish a task force to evaluate and make recommendations to Congress on addressing America’s affordable housing crisis, and the other to help Housing Choice Voucher holders move to areas of opportunity. The early-bird registration rate ends on February 25. Register today and receive the reduced price at: http://www.nlihcforum.org/
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. Awareness about the affordable housing crisis in America is growing, and federal policymakers on both sides of the aisle 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.
Among the topics to be addressed at this year’s Forum are:
- 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 affordable housing crisis in rural areas and tribal lands and advocacy strategies to achieve real solutions.
- The growing Opportunity Starts at Home multi-sector affordable housing movement
- The U.S. eviction epidemic and its solutions
- Getting started building and preserving homes for people with the lowest incomes through 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
- Research on the issues and solutions related to housing for extremely vulnerable populations
- The keys to state, local, and resident-led organizing
- Low-income resident leadership
- Federal fixes to ensure equitable disaster housing recovery
- And more
The 2019 Housing Policy Forum is filling up fast, so register today at: http://www.nlihcforum.org/