Fair Housing Conference 2020
"Fighting for housing and racial equity:
Expanding fair housing choice and building a framework for racial wealth equality"
Monday, April 20, 2020
9:00am - 1:30pm
Marin Center Showcase Theater
10 Avenue of the Flags, San Rafael, CA
$25
Registration is required. Scholarships are available.
9:00am - 1:30pm
Marin Center Showcase Theater
10 Avenue of the Flags, San Rafael, CA
$25
Registration is required. Scholarships are available.
The conference creates a space for community members, non-profits, advocates, real estate professionals, housing providers, and municipal leaders and staff to gather and address pressing fair housing issues affecting communities in the Bay Area. Speakers include national and local experts who will discuss expanding fair housing choice, creating racial equity, and building a framework for racial wealth equality. Together, we can build on the legacy of the leaders of the civil rights movement to create a more just and equitable society. Furthering fair housing means advancing equity, not just in terms of housing choice, but also as it relates to all opportunities related to where you live, including employment, transportation, education, health, and access to financial markets. We hope you can join us at our conference when the community comes together to learn from and inspire one another!
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Opening Remarks
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"California Dreaming? The Opportunities and Obstacles of
New State Laws in Furthering Fair Housing” Ben Metcalf Principal Stronger Foundations, LLC Former Director, CA Dept. of Housing and Community Development |
In this talk, Ben Metcalf, will overview how new ambitious state housing production targets and new laws overriding local control on housing enhance and impede Assembly Bill 686, California's 2019 State Fair Housing Law.
Ben Metcalf is founder and principal of Stronger Foundations LLC. He has spent his career delivering housing solutions in both the public and private sectors. His approach—which values partnership and creativity—draws on his experience as a hands-on practitioner and strategic policy maker. Ben was formerly Director of the California Department of Housing and Community Development serving under Governors Brown and Newsom. Ben also worked at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development where he served most recently as an appointee of President Obama in the role of Deputy Assistant Secretary of HUD’s Office of Multifamily Housing Programs. Previously, he developed mixed-income and mixed-use communities with BRIDGE Housing Corporation. Ben has a Master in Public Policy and Urban Planning from the Harvard Kennedy School and Bachelor of Arts from Amherst College. He lives and works in Oakland, California.
Ben Metcalf is founder and principal of Stronger Foundations LLC. He has spent his career delivering housing solutions in both the public and private sectors. His approach—which values partnership and creativity—draws on his experience as a hands-on practitioner and strategic policy maker. Ben was formerly Director of the California Department of Housing and Community Development serving under Governors Brown and Newsom. Ben also worked at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development where he served most recently as an appointee of President Obama in the role of Deputy Assistant Secretary of HUD’s Office of Multifamily Housing Programs. Previously, he developed mixed-income and mixed-use communities with BRIDGE Housing Corporation. Ben has a Master in Public Policy and Urban Planning from the Harvard Kennedy School and Bachelor of Arts from Amherst College. He lives and works in Oakland, California.
Keynote Speakers
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"The perils and promises of fair housing"
john a. powell Director Othering & Belonging Institute, UC Berkeley Professor of Law African American Studies, and Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley |
john a. powell provides five decades of experience fighting for housing equity and fair housing. He will talk about the perils confronting us at this moment from displacement crisis to Trump administration attacks on fair housing.
john a. powell is Director of the Othering and Belonging Institute and Professor of Law, African American, and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He was previously the Executive Director at the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at the Ohio State University, and prior to that, the founder and director of the Institute for Race and Poverty at the University of Minnesota. john formerly served as the National Legal Director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). He is a co-founder of the Poverty & Race Research Action Council and serves on the boards of several national and international organizations. john led the development of an “opportunity-based” model that connects affordable housing to education, health, health care, and employment and is well-known for his work developing the frameworks of “targeted universalism” and “othering and belonging” to effect equity-based interventions. john has taught at numerous law schools including Harvard and Columbia University. His latest book is Racing to Justice: Transforming our Concepts of Self and Other to Build an Inclusive Society.
john a. powell is Director of the Othering and Belonging Institute and Professor of Law, African American, and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He was previously the Executive Director at the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at the Ohio State University, and prior to that, the founder and director of the Institute for Race and Poverty at the University of Minnesota. john formerly served as the National Legal Director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). He is a co-founder of the Poverty & Race Research Action Council and serves on the boards of several national and international organizations. john led the development of an “opportunity-based” model that connects affordable housing to education, health, health care, and employment and is well-known for his work developing the frameworks of “targeted universalism” and “othering and belonging” to effect equity-based interventions. john has taught at numerous law schools including Harvard and Columbia University. His latest book is Racing to Justice: Transforming our Concepts of Self and Other to Build an Inclusive Society.
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"Forget the Racial Wealth Gap, It’s About the Plunder"
Anne Price President Insight Center for Community Economic Development 
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Inequality is a defining American issue, and perhaps no measure more accurately exemplifies the failures and injustices of historic and current day economic decisions than the “racial wealth gap.” Racial wealth inequities were intentionally created and maintained over time at all levels of government. Policy conversations centered on tackling the racial wealth gap often fail to acknowledge how the combined effect of the structural power dynamics of unchecked corporate power and corrupted and eroded government power have reinforced and exacerbated racial wealth inequities. Anne will share why we must extend beyond the goal of closing the racial wealth gap and concentrate on undoing its root causes- anti-Black racism, residential segregation and extractive corporate practices.
Anne E. Price is the first woman President of the Insight Center for Community Economic Development. She previously served as Director of the Closing the Racial Wealth Gap Initiative at Insight from 2011 to 2016. Anne is an experienced researcher, advocate and trainer. She has spent 25 years in the public sector working on a wide range of issues including child welfare, hunger, welfare reform, workforce development, community development and higher education. Prior to joining the Insight Center, Anne served as Project Director for California Tomorrow’s Community College Access and Equity Initiative. Anne also spent several years at Seattle’s Human Services Department where she served as the Community Development Block Grant Administrator and Strategic Advisor to the Director.
Anne holds a B.A. in Economics from Hampton University and earned her M.A. in Management and Policy Analysis from the New School’s Milano Graduate School of Management and Urban Policy in New York City.
Anne E. Price is the first woman President of the Insight Center for Community Economic Development. She previously served as Director of the Closing the Racial Wealth Gap Initiative at Insight from 2011 to 2016. Anne is an experienced researcher, advocate and trainer. She has spent 25 years in the public sector working on a wide range of issues including child welfare, hunger, welfare reform, workforce development, community development and higher education. Prior to joining the Insight Center, Anne served as Project Director for California Tomorrow’s Community College Access and Equity Initiative. Anne also spent several years at Seattle’s Human Services Department where she served as the Community Development Block Grant Administrator and Strategic Advisor to the Director.
Anne holds a B.A. in Economics from Hampton University and earned her M.A. in Management and Policy Analysis from the New School’s Milano Graduate School of Management and Urban Policy in New York City.
For accommodation requests or scholarships, please contact Adriana Ames:
adriana@fairhousingnorcal.org
For donations and sponsorship requests, please contact Annya Maskey:
annya@fairhousingnorcal.org
adriana@fairhousingnorcal.org
For donations and sponsorship requests, please contact Annya Maskey:
annya@fairhousingnorcal.org
Thank you to our Sponsors!
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Conference Partner:
Legal Aid of Marin
Media Sponsors:
Community Media Center of Marin
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The Power Is Now
Printing Sponsor:
Unicorn Group
Legal Aid of Marin
Media Sponsors:
Community Media Center of Marin
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The Power Is Now
Printing Sponsor:
Unicorn Group
This conference is also supported by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
under a FHIP Education and Outreach Initiative grant.
under a FHIP Education and Outreach Initiative grant.
