Registration Opens for NLIHC 2019 Housing Policy Forum: Seizing the Moment for Bold Solutions, March 27-29, 2019

Registration is now open for NLIHC’s 2019 Housing Policy Forum: Seizing the Moment for Bold Solutions taking place in Washington, DC, March 27-29, 2019.  Learn more about the Forum and register today at: http://www.nlihcforum.org/

The Forum will provide a wide array of opportunities to engage with affordable housing advocates, thought-leaders, policy experts, researchers, housing providers, low income residents, and leaders from Capitol Hill about capitalizing on this unique moment to advance bold solutions to homelessness and housing poverty in America. Awareness about the affordable housing crisis in America is growing significantly, and federal policymakers on both sides of the aisle are responding; some have put forward bold legislative proposals to address the housing needs of low income people.

The Policy Forum will explore 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; 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; and the latest trends in affordable housing research. The Forum will also offer a special session for low income resident leaders and opportunities to engage with elected officials and staff in Congress on affordable housing challenges, solutions, and priorities.

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 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 today at: http://www.nlihcforum.org/