House Financial Services Committee to Hold Hearing on Affordable Housing Crisis

The House Financial Services Committee will hold a hearing on January 14 at 10:00 a.m. ET, “On the Brink of Homelessness: How the Affordable Housing Crisis and the Gentrification of America Is Leaving Families Vulnerable.” The hearing will be held in 2128 Rayburn Office Building.

Witnesses are:

  • Karen Chapple, professor and chair of the Department of City and Regional Planning, University of California, Berkley
  • Matthew Desmond, Maurice P. During professor of Sociology & director of the Eviction Lab, Princeton University
  • Priya Jayachandran, president, National Housing Trust
  • Jeffrey Williams, tenant advocate

Learn more about the hearing and watch the livestream at: https://bit.ly/2TdL3gT