NLIHC 2019 Housing Policy Forum to Explore State of Play in Congress Post-Election

NLIHC’s 2019 Housing Policy Forum: Seizing the Moment for Bold Solutions taking place in Washington, DC, March 27-29, 2019, will feature a bipartisan panel of senior Congressional staff who will address the new state of play on Capitol Hill after the mid-term elections, particularly as it relates to the threats and opportunities related to affordable housing and homelessness funding, housing finance reform, and more. Register to attend the forum today at: http://www.nlihcforum.org/

The 2019 Policy Forum will provide a wide array of additional opportunities to engage with affordable housing advocates, thought-leaders, policy experts, researchers, housing providers, low income residents, and elected leaders on seizing this unique moment in America to advance policy solutions to homelessness and housing poverty. As awareness about the affordable housing crisis in America grows, federal policymakers on both sides of the aisle are responding with bold proposals. Homelessness and affordable housing advocates must mobilize to lead the way.

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
• 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/