The needs of rural and Native American tribal areas can often be overlooked in conversations about affordable housing, but the need in these places is no less severe. In fact, in many cases it is far worse. NLIHC’s 2019 Housing Policy Forum: Seizing the Moment for Bold Solutions will feature a panel examining the affordable housing crisis in rural areas and tribal lands and providing strategies to better incorporate those issues in advocacy efforts to achieve real solutions. The Forum will take place in Washington, DC, March 27-29. Register today at: http://www.nlihcforum.org/
Speakers on rural and native housing will be:
- Rob Weiner, California Coalition for Rural Housing
- Tony Walters, Native American Indian Housing Council
- Lance George, Housing Assistance Council
- Sonya Acosta, NLIHC (Moderator)
Other topics to be addressed at this year’s forum 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
- The U.S. eviction epidemic and its solutions
- Getting started building and preserving homes for people with the lowest incomes though 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
- Low-income resident leadership
- And more
Learn more about the Forum and register today at: http://www.nlihcforum.org/