How Housing Matters: Housing as Platform for Economic Opportunity

This innovative day-long conference presented inter-disciplinary new research and case studies from across the U.S. that will inform both policymakers and practitioners. The program builds on the MacArthur Foundation's five-year, $25 million dollar How Housing Matters initiative, as well as on the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's strategic initiative exploring housing as a platform for education, health and economic opportunity.

Housing as Platform for Economic Opportunity
Panelists will explore possible linkages between stable, affordable housing with increased income, as well as job opportunities and supports.
Ron Ashford, director, Public Housing Supportive Services, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Deven Carlson, graduate affiliate, Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Martina Gillis, 2005 homebuyer graduate of the Family Self-Sufficiency Program
James Riccio, director, Low-Wage Workers and Communities Policy Area, MRDC
Nancy Scull, program coordinator, Family Self-Sufficiency Program, Montgomery County, Maryland
Moderated by Jeffrey Lubell, executive director, Center for Housing Policy

Category:

Education

Tags:

• housing
• lubell
• scull
• riccio
• conference
• mcarthur
• ashford
• carlson