2024 has been a year of unprecedented political change, with leadership shifts across major global markets. As we head into 2025, real estate professionals are grappling with how these changes might influence market trends, economic stability, and sector performance. 

Join the ULI Americas Young Leaders Group for an exclusive webinar exploring the future of global real estate in a post-election world. As political landscapes shift and economic uncertainties loom, this webinar provides expert insights into navigating the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead for real estate professionals. This webinar gathers industry-leading economists and market analysts to explore the implications of these historic elections on the commercial real estate industry. 

In this webinar, you will: 

• Gain insights into the post-election economic outlook: Understand the potential impact of recent elections on key economic indicators in major global markets. 

• Identify key real estate trends: Explore emerging trends and opportunities in various real estate sectors, including residential, commercial, and industrial. 

• Assess political risks: Analyze how policy changes resulting from elections may influence investment strategies and risk management. 

• Learn from experts: Hear from leading economists and real estate analysts about navigating uncertainty in a dynamic global market. 

• Engage in Q&A: Participate in a Q&A session with our expert panel to address your specific concerns and gain valuable perspectives. 

Who Should Attend: This content is designed for real estate professionals of all levels, this webinar invites young leaders to engage with key insights and trends that will define the future of global real estate.

Time & Location

Dec 11, 2024, 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM

Columbus Metropolitan Library: Hilltop, 511 S Hague Ave, Columbus, OH 43204, USA

About the event

**Join us for a Discussion on Alternative Housing Solutions and Addressing the Housing Affordability Crisis**

We invite you to participate in an upcoming event where we will delve into innovative housing options and strategies to tackle the housing affordability crisis. Stay tuned for more details on how you can be part of this important conversation.

Join the Fair Housing Center for a free afternoon of fair housing education. Attend all sessions or just the ones that interest you!

12:00 History & Enforcement of Fair Housing Act

1:00 Reasoanble Accomidations, Modifiatoins, & Disability RIghts

2:00 Sex Based Discrimination and LGBTQ Issues

3:00 Race, National Origin, Religious Discrimination

4:00 Questions and Answer

Join The Alliance of Ohio Legal Aids for a free virtual training featuring Chase Hatchett from The Pew Charitable Trusts Housing Policy Initiative to discuss the results of Pew’s in-depth study of land contracts in Ohio. His presentation will be followed by a panel discussion about land contracts from the legal aid advocate’s perspective

Tickets will be available 6 weeks prior to event.

Carnegie Author Series featuring Dr. Matthew Desmond
Sunday, Dec. 8 | 2 p.m.

Main Library | 96 S. Grant Ave.

1 p.m. | Library opens

1:30 p.m. | Seating opens in the second floor Reading Room

2 p.m. | Author Talk with Dr. Matthew Desmond

2:45 p.m.| Audience Q&A

3:00 p.m. | Book signing

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Matthew Desmond is the Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology and the founder and principal investigator of the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. A former member of the Harvard Society of Fellows, he is also the author of the award-winning book On the Fireline and Poverty by America. He has written essays on educational inequality, dangerous work, political ideology, race and social theory, and the inner-city housing market. He is a Contributing Writer for The New York Times Magazine, and his writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Yorker and The Chicago Tribune.

EVENT DETAILS

Free parking available in Main Library's attached garage.

The event is free to the public but registration is requested.

In this panel discussion, we will hear from local leaders in affordable housing in Central Ohio: Carlie Boos, Executive Director of the Affordable Housing Alliance of Central Ohio (AHACO); Lark Mallory, the founder of Mallory Economic Development Advisors, LLC; Jason Reece, Vice Provost for Urban Research & Community Engagement at The Ohio State University; and Amy Riegel, Executive Director of the Coalition on Homelessness and Housing in Ohio (COHHIO). 

Through the panelists' varied perspectives, participants will learn about the challenges and opportunities for housing in the region.

After decades of discussion, progress is finally being made in incorporating alternative data—particularly rental payment history—into credit scoring and mortgage underwriting.

Join the Urban Institute for an event showcasing new findings on the impact of rent reporting on credit scores, exploring the changes needed to enhance the effective use of alternative data in the mortgage industry, and highlighting recent innovations that can help consumers build credit beyond traditional methods.

Program:

• Panel 1: How Does Rent Reporting Affect Credit Scores?

• Panel 2: How Can Alternative Data Improve Mortgage Underwriting?

• Panel 3: What Innovations Can Help Consumers Build Credit?

Speakers to be announced.

The Evolution of a Movement: Faith-Based Development and Progress on the Public Policy Front

Enterprise Faith-Based Development InitiativeSM is in its 18th year, and our annual summit aims to support the growing national movement around faith-based development. This year’s summit focuses on progress made at all levels of government on the public policy front to support faith-based development. Policy makers, practitioners, and faith-leaders from across the country will share their insights and perspectives on the evolution of the movement. 

A webinar presented by the Housing Our Future collaborative.

With all the mail, email and unsolicited phone calls, it is becoming more

and more difficult to determine what is legitimate and what might

be a scam! Scammers often utilize public information pertaining

to home ownership to take advantage of responsible property

owners. Learn how to detect and avoid homeowner related scams

at this 90 minute panel event featuring local subject matter experts.

Call 614-561-1621 to Register by Wed. Dec. 4th

Join MAA and MBA's Legislative & Political Affairs team for a post-election virtual briefing on Wednesday, December 4 from 3:00-4:00 PM ET. The results of this year's elections will set the stage for the next administration. Register now and hear from a panel of experts as they reflect on the outcome of the elections and how to prepare for what's ahead in terms of opportunities and challenges at the federal level.

Your RSVP will establish or renew your MAA membership. Please use MAA2024 to receive complimentary access to this webinar.

In 2023, Columbus saw nearly 24,000 eviction filings, marking a 12,000-case increase from the previous year. Early 2024 data shows this trend worsening, with evictions reaching a 20-year high in Franklin County. Across Ohio, landlords initiated almost 108,000 eviction cases in 2023 — the highest since 2015. A major driver behind the surge is sluggish wage growth, which isn’t keeping pace with skyrocketing rents. The “housing wage” — what a worker needs to earn per hour to afford a two-bedroom apartment — rose 9% since last year. To afford such a home, full-time workers need an hourly wage of at least $20.81. In Columbus, however, this figure climbs even higher to $25.04 per hour. With a panel of regional leaders, CMC unpacks why evictions are climbing, the impact on communities when families lose their homes, and the strategies that advocates are leveraging to ensure more Central Ohio families stay housed.

Featuring Kate McGarvey, Executive Director, Legal Aid of Southeast and Central Ohio; Shayla D. Favor, Columbus City Council Member, and Chair, Columbus City Council Housing, Homelessness & Building Committees; Gene Edwards, Director of Legal Research and Magistrate, Franklin County Municipal Court, and with moderator Danae King, Underserved Communities Reporter, The Columbus Dispatch.

TANGIBLE. IMPACTFUL. ACHIEVABLE.

On December 4, 2024, the National Housing Conference will host its Solutions for Affordable Housing convening at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. This hybrid convening serves as a platform for fostering connections among a diverse range of affordable housing stakeholders, encompassing officials from municipal bodies, charitable foundations, non-profit organizations, real estate developers, lenders, and beyond. Our focus is on housing priorities that are tangible, impactful, and achievable.

Attendees will build a deeper understanding of key national housing issues and the interplay between federal, state, and local policies that shape them. Sessions will provide participants with valuable insights to enhance their understanding of how their organization's objectives align with the broader national housing strategy.

NLIHC, the National Alliance to End Homelessness, and the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities invite advocates nationwide to register for a webinar series on advancing solutions to the homelessness crisis. On the webinars, we will share more about proven strategies to successfully end homelessness, best practices for state and local advocacy, and actions advocates can take to advance solutions. Homelessness demands urgent action from all levels of government. We know what works to end homelessness: providing individuals with stable, accessible affordable housing and voluntary supportive services. We hope you will join us in building the political will and congressional support necessary to do so!

Which is why you won't want to miss our upcoming Town Hall on December 3rd in Hilliard. It'll be a fun evening and a terrific opportunity for you to get up to speed and connect with others in our community. Make plans to join us for:

• Exciting news about All In's progress and BIG plans for 2025, including our partnership with TFG Housing Resources to co-develop our first project

• Dialogue and conversation with allies and advocates who share your interest in disability-inclusive housing

• An up-to-the-minute overview of promising disability housing innovations underway across the US

• New ideas and collaborations to expand housing options throughout Central Ohio

We'll provide light refreshments, good vibes, and a welcoming, accessible venue (Waters Edge Event Center). You bring your questions and suggestions and come ready to explore what we can do together to advance this cause.

See below for all the details. And register today!

Join us for an in-depth discussion and overview of HUD's latest fair housing guidance on rental applicant screening. This webinar will delve into the practical implications of the guidance, offer compliance strategies, and explore how policymakers can harness this framework to develop local and state tenant screening policies that promote fair and non-discriminatory housing access. Additionally, we will present new research on the harms caused by automated tenant screening practices, as well as critical insights into the limitations and challenges of portable tenant screening reports. Designed for housing advocates, landlords, property managers, legal practitioners, and policymakers, this session will provide essential tools and perspectives for aligning tenant screening practices with fair housing principles and advancing inclusive, equitable housing communities.

What does the term “just transition” mean? How can finance truly be liberated from traditional business assumptions and instead be mobilized to support a just transition to an economy rooted in values of solidarity?

Those questions were at the heart of an economic justice article series coproduced this summer by Nonprofit Quarterly (NPQ) and Justice Funders. To addresses those questions, drawing on the contributions from many of the authors in that series, this 90-minute webinar will offer a conversation on the joys and challenges, dos and don’ts, of putting liberatory finance and investment into action in the real world. Our expert panelists are:

Fernando Abarca is a loan fund organizer for Right to the City Alliance, based in Los Angeles, California.

Jaime Gloshay is a cofounder of Native Women Lead and is managing director of impact investments for Common Future, based in New Mexico.

abdiel j. lópez is director of capital activation at Justice Funders based between Oaxaca and Los Angeles.

Onyx Ramirez is senior communications director at Black Farmer Fund based in New York City.This webinar will explore:

• What is a just transition and what role does finance have in bringing a just transition about?

• What are the best ways to think about “risk” in a liberatory finance context?

• What do we mean when we use the term of “non-extractive finance”?

• How can a loan fund be democratically governed?

• What is a land recovery fund and how does it function?

• What does an Indigenous loan fund look like—and what are the 5Rs of Rematriation?

• How can liberatory finance support housing justice?

• What would real foundation accountability to communities look like?

Whether you’re a nonprofit leader, board member, or engaged in community-based organizing, this webinar will provide you with real-life examples and lessons learned that can inform your work in your own community.

Register to learn how nonprofits and movement activists are advancing strategies to address the economic and social inequalities of our time!

The moderator for this webinar is NPQ senior editor of economic justice Steve Dubb. Steve has worked with cooperatives and nonprofits for over two decades and has been both a student and practitioner in the field of community economic development.

Engage with housing practitioners, advocates, community activists and researchers as we explore effective solutions to the housing crisis beyond building more units. Speakers will discuss methods for increasing affordability and making units and homes permanently affordable, such as establishing community land trusts, expanding housing assistance, and more!

Join NCRC member Utah Housing Coalition for this event on November 19. Over the past 5 years, Utah has been making changes in the way they address housing & homelessness. The Governor, Legislature, state and local governments, and industry members have been working together to tackle the problems more efficiently. Please join the Governor’s Office of Budget and Planning to learn about the progress and future steps.

MORPC and partners are hosting a workshop on the critical role effective planning and zoning plays in future development of Central Ohio.

Join the Greater Ohio Policy Center (GOPC), the OhioREALTORS, and Pattern Zones Co. to hear an update on the development of a statewide pattern book toolkit to increase the supply of infill housing in the state.

Once released, the toolkit will include architectural renderings of housing that local communities can adopt. The toolkit will also include zoning corrective recommendations that can increase housing development and promote infill development.

GOPC and the OhioREALTORS are partnering on this project, with Pattern Zones Co. serving as the consultant to develop the book, its recommendations, and architectural renderings. Ahead of the release of the toolkit, this webinar will share details for what local governments, builders, developers, and nonprofits can anticipate.

Registration is required for the webinar, which will take place on November 18th from 3-4pm.

 A successful nonpartisan voter engagement campaign does not end on Election Day. After the election is over, housing and homelessness organizations should evaluate the impact of their activities, leverage the power of low-income renters as a voting constituency, and establish relationships with newly elected officials. This webinar will cover strategies to hold elected officials accountable to their campaign promises and advocate for long-term, systemic change to increase voter access.

In Los Angeles County, a unique pilot program is using predictive analytics to help prevent homelessness. Under the program, researchers from the California Policy Lab (CPL) use anonymized data on almost 100,000 people who use health and mental health services provided eight different county agencies to develop computer models that identify clients of County services who are at high risk of homelessness. Officials at the county’s Health Services or Mental Health Departments then work to connect those individuals with programs and/or resources that can address their needs and, in doing so, help ensure that they do not experience homelessness. CPL is also working with county officials to assess the efficacy of this novel approach, which is based on a 2019 CPL report. Co-sponsored by the Initiative on Health and Homelessness at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the Harvard Joint Center on Housing Studies, the Harvard Kennedy School Government Performance Lab, and the Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative.

In Los Angeles County, a unique pilot program is using predictive analytics to help prevent homelessness. Under the program, researchers from the California Policy Lab (CPL) use anonymized data on almost 100,000 people who use health and mental health services provided eight different county agencies to develop computer models that identify clients of County services who are at high risk of homelessness. Officials at the county’s Health Services or Mental Health Departments then work to connect those individuals with programs and/or resources that can address their needs and, in doing so, help ensure that they do not experience homelessness. CPL is also working with county officials to assess the efficacy of this novel approach, which is based on a 2019 CPL report.

Many older adults want to live independently but can only do so if they have access to long-term care (LTC) services, such as bathing, dressing, shopping, cooking, and daily healthcare routines. However, many cannot afford this assistance, particularly after they pay their housing costs. Samara Scheckler and Peyton Whitney will discuss a new paper that estimates the number of older households unable to afford these services and strategies that could make them more affordable. Panel discussion to follow, moderated by Jennifer Molinsky, director of the Center’s Housing an Aging Society Program.

Housing is an investment. Investment prices must go up. Housing is shelter. When the price of shelter goes up, people experience distress. 

This is the housing trap. It’s time to escape. This presentation introduces a first-of-its-kind discussion of the tension between housing as a financial product and housing as shelter. These insights will help local communities fight back against the current affordability housing crisis, and opt out of the boom and bust cycles that have typified housing in postwar America. 

This presentation offers a serious, yet accessible, history of housing policy in the United States and explains how it led us to this point in time: where we face a market that is rigged against people who, only a few decades ago, could have been homeowners or stable, long-term renters. Only local change, on a neighborhood or city-wide scale, can begin to restore balance to the housing market.

Charles Marohn, known as “Chuck” to friends and colleagues, is the founder and president of Strong Towns. He is a civil engineer and a land use planner with decades of experience. He holds a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering and a Master of Urban and Regional Planning, both from the University of Minnesota. Marohn is the author of Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity (Wiley, 2019), And of Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town (Wiley, 2021). He hosts the Strong Towns Podcast and is a primary writer for Strong Towns’ web content. He has presented Strong Towns concepts in hundreds of cities and towns across North America. Planetizen named him one of the 10 Most Influential Urbanists of all time.

This fall, CURA and MORPC are hosting a series of presentations featuring national and local leaders to dive into the issue of housing and its impact on communities.

This event is approved for 1 AICP CM credit. To claim your CM credits, log into your My APA account on the APA website and enter the event into your online CM event log.

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Are you a "Non" or "For-profit" Developer, Investor or Resource Provider interested in revitalizing your neighborhood? This is for You!



Central Ohio Community Land Trust (COCLT) works with developers to provide residential, new construction homes on currently owned Land Bank lots in areas with high housing costs.

Join us to learn more, from Hope Paxton, as she shares how COCIC is working with Developers, through the Central Ohio Community Land Trust as a Community Investment for permanently affordable housing.

COCLT has completed homes in the Near East, South Side, Franklinton, Whitehall, Urbancrest, Linden, Milo-Grogan, Weinland Park, Clinton Township, Mifflin Township, the Hilltop, and Franklin Township. They partner with reputable developers and builders and aim for well-built, energy-efficient, durable homes that fit the design of the neighborhood.

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