In light of the statewide 'Shelter in Place' ordinance, FHANC chose to offer this year's conference as a virtual interactive series. With the new reality of COVID-19, we realized it is more important than ever to look at issues of fair housing and equity.
The conference created a space for community members, non-profits, advocates, real estate professionals, housing providers, and municipal leaders and staff to address pressing fair housing issues affecting communities in the Bay Area. Speakers included national and local experts who discussed expanding fair housing choice and building a framework for racial wealth equality amid shifting state and national policies. 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.
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April 27: 10:30am - 12:00pm
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"Advancing Racial, Gender, and Economic Justice in this Moment of Crisis"
Anne Price President Insight Center for Community Economic Development Moderated by:
Melissa Jones Executive Director Bay Area Regional Health Inequities Initiative |
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The COVID-19 Crisis is illuminating the inequitable rules, policies and structures of our economy. The Pandemic is quickly shedding light on how persistent racial wealth and income inequality leads to further economic marginalization of families of color and women in times of national emergency. Working towards structural change and centering the needs and plight of women and people of color is more important now than ever. We are now called to not only expose historical truths that continue to inflict harm but to also shine a light on systems of wealth extraction and barriers to accumulating assets as they are being built anew post COVID-19 pandemic. Anne will share why we must concentrate on undoing the root causes of racial wealth inequality by focusing on 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.
Melissa Jones is passionate about creating the conditions that increase quality of life and makes life more fair for more people. Her work focuses on the intersection of social determinants of health, social inequity, and well-being.
Her experience includes work in municipal government and non-profits, in the Bay Area’s large and small cities. Melissa is an active community member in Oakland and also serves on the Association of Bay Area Government’s Regional Planning Committee, which advises on regional planning issues.
Before joining BARHII, Melissa served as Senior Program Officer at Boston Local Initiative Support Corporation (LISC), where she launched and ran Boston LISC’s Resilient Communities Resilient Families (RCRF) Initiative. The initiative works to ensure that residents of Boston’s Roxbury, Dorchester, and Mattapan neighborhoods benefit from the rising tide of transit and other public investments. During her tenure, RCRF engaged several thousand residents and non-profits in neighborhood planning. The program has invested millions of dollars to fund affordable housing, leadership development, Family Financial Opportunity Center programs, and a local entrepreneurship pipeline program to ensure residents’ financial lives are improving. She was awarded the LISC’s President’s award in 2014 for her work on comprehensive community development.
Melissa has additional experience funding and implementing programs focused on community economic development, family financial stability, education, and civic empowerment. Specifically, she has served in youth empowerment organizations, as Program Specialist for the City of Alameda, and as Program Analyst for the City of Oakland’s Oakland Fund for Children and Youth. Early in her career, she served as Director of Professional Development for Partners in School Innovation where she trained staff to support school reform efforts in San Francisco Unified, San Jose Unified, and Oak Grove Unified school districts.
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.
Melissa Jones is passionate about creating the conditions that increase quality of life and makes life more fair for more people. Her work focuses on the intersection of social determinants of health, social inequity, and well-being.
Her experience includes work in municipal government and non-profits, in the Bay Area’s large and small cities. Melissa is an active community member in Oakland and also serves on the Association of Bay Area Government’s Regional Planning Committee, which advises on regional planning issues.
Before joining BARHII, Melissa served as Senior Program Officer at Boston Local Initiative Support Corporation (LISC), where she launched and ran Boston LISC’s Resilient Communities Resilient Families (RCRF) Initiative. The initiative works to ensure that residents of Boston’s Roxbury, Dorchester, and Mattapan neighborhoods benefit from the rising tide of transit and other public investments. During her tenure, RCRF engaged several thousand residents and non-profits in neighborhood planning. The program has invested millions of dollars to fund affordable housing, leadership development, Family Financial Opportunity Center programs, and a local entrepreneurship pipeline program to ensure residents’ financial lives are improving. She was awarded the LISC’s President’s award in 2014 for her work on comprehensive community development.
Melissa has additional experience funding and implementing programs focused on community economic development, family financial stability, education, and civic empowerment. Specifically, she has served in youth empowerment organizations, as Program Specialist for the City of Alameda, and as Program Analyst for the City of Oakland’s Oakland Fund for Children and Youth. Early in her career, she served as Director of Professional Development for Partners in School Innovation where she trained staff to support school reform efforts in San Francisco Unified, San Jose Unified, and Oak Grove Unified school districts.
April 20: 10:30am - 12:00pm
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"The Perils and Promises of Fair Housing"
john a. powell Director Othering & Belonging Institute Professor of Law, African American Studies, and Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley Moderated by: Ben Metcalf Founder and Principal, Stronger Foundations Managing Director, University of California Berkeley Terner Center for Housing Innovation |
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john a. powell provides five decades of experience fighting for housing equity and fair housing. He will introduce news ways of thinking about fair housing using an opportunity-based framework, and how racialization and othering present barriers to opportunity in 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.
April 13: 10:30am - 12:00pm
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"California Dreaming? The Opportunities and Obstacles of
New State Laws in Furthering Fair Housing” Ben Metcalf Founder and Principal Stronger Foundations Managing Director University of California Berkeley Terner Center for Housing Innovation Moderated by:
Shamus Roller Executive Director National Housing Law Project |
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In this talk, Ben Metcalf will overview how new ambitious state housing production targets and laws overriding local control on housing enhance and impede implementation of Assembly Bill 686, California's 2019 Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Law, in the context of a post-Covid-19 new normal.
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.
Shamus Roller is the Executive Director of the National Housing Law Project (NHLP). NHLP is a national legal and advocacy center working to strengthen and enforce the rights of tenants, increase housing opportunities for underserved communities, and preserve and expand the nation’s supply of safe and affordable homes. Before joining NHLP, Shamus served as the Executive Director of Housing California, a statewide advocacy organization working on issues of housing and homelessness. He started his career running street outreach programs for youth experiencing homelessness and ran a meditation and yoga program for incarcerated youth. He serves on the board of directors of Brilliant Corners and as the board president of the California Association of Nonprofits.
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.
Shamus Roller is the Executive Director of the National Housing Law Project (NHLP). NHLP is a national legal and advocacy center working to strengthen and enforce the rights of tenants, increase housing opportunities for underserved communities, and preserve and expand the nation’s supply of safe and affordable homes. Before joining NHLP, Shamus served as the Executive Director of Housing California, a statewide advocacy organization working on issues of housing and homelessness. He started his career running street outreach programs for youth experiencing homelessness and ran a meditation and yoga program for incarcerated youth. He serves on the board of directors of Brilliant Corners and as the board president of the California Association of Nonprofits.
Thank you to our conference sponsors!
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This conference is also supported by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
under a FHIP Education and Outreach Initiative grant.
Note: This material is based on work supported by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) under FHIP EOI Grant FEOI19005. Any opinion, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of HUD.
under a FHIP Education and Outreach Initiative grant.
Note: This material is based on work supported by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) under FHIP EOI Grant FEOI19005. Any opinion, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of HUD.
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2018 Conference: 50th Anniversary Guest Speakers and Panelist Power Point Presentations
2017 Conference Program
2016 Conference Program
2016 Marin IJ Article
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