Matthew Desmond, author of the Pulitzer-Prize-winning book Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City and principle investigator at the Eviction Lab at Princeton University, will speak at NLIHC’s 2019 Housing Policy Forum: Seizing the Moment for Bold Solutions on America’s ongoing eviction epidemic and its solutions. The Forum will take place in Washington, DC, March 27-29. Register to attend the forum today at: http://www.nlihcforum.org/
The theme of this year’s forum is seizing this unique moment to achieve bold solutions to homelessness and housing poverty in America. Awareness about the affordable housing crisis is growing, and federal policymakers on both sides of the aisle are responding with ambitious 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. Invited and confirmed Forum speakers include Senators Kamala Harris (D-CA), Todd Young (R-IN), and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA).
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
- 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
- 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
- The U.S. eviction epidemic and its solutions
- And more
There are still some shared-lodging hotel scholarships available 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 27. 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 at: http://www.nlihcforum.org/