Registration for NLIHC’s Housing Policy Forum 2025 has officially opened! The 2025 Forum will feature conversations with administrative officials and key leaders in Congress, as well as an array of other speakers and panelists. Participants will have the opportunity to engage with and learn from thought-leaders, tenant and community leaders, policy experts, researchers, and affordable housing practitioners who will discuss the state of the affordable housing and homelessness crisis in America and its solutions. Register for the 2025 Forum.
Featuring Nikole Hannah-Jones as Keynote Speaker!
Nikole Hannah-Jones is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and a staff writer at The New York Times Magazine who has spent her career investigating racial inequality and injustice.
She is the creator of the 1619 Project, a New York Times initiative that retells American history by focusing on the arrival of enslaved Africans in Virginia in 1619.
She is also the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, a Peabody Award, and two George Polk Awards, and she is a three-time winner of the National Magazine Award. In addition to her work as a journalist, Hannah-Jones serves as the Knight Chair of Race and Journalism at Howard University, where she founded the Center for Journalism & Democracy, and she is the co-founder of the Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting, which seeks to increase the number of investigative reporters and editors of color.