NLIHC’s 2019 Housing Policy Forum: Seizing the Moment for Bold Solutions taking place in Washington, DC, March 27-29, 2019 will explore the issues and solutions related to housing for extremely vulnerable populations. This session with leading researchers will provide a look at the uphill challenge some of the most vulnerable individuals and families face in finding shelter, given the national shortage of seven million affordable and available homes for extremely low-income renter households. The panelists will present their research about the experiences of those most impacted by this shortage, including families living in motels, persons with disabilities, and disaster survivors, and will discuss policy solutions for those living in precarious housing situations. Register to attend the forum today at: http://www.nlihcforum.org/
The theme of the 2019 Policy Forum will be seizing this unique moment in America to achieve bold solutions to homelessness and housing poverty. Awareness about the affordable housing crisis in America is growing significantly, 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 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.
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
- Low-income resident leadership
- And more
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.
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/