Join our first brainstorming session—an opportunity to shape the vision and direction of N4MN in Central Ohio!

When: Monday, March 20, 2023 from 6pm to 7:30pm (EST)
Where: Parsons Branch—Columbus Metropolitan Library
1113 Parsons Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43206
Meeting Room 2
What: An informal planning and visioning event.
Who: Neighbors who want more neighbors.
Why: To help inform the direction, priorities, and strategies of N4MN—Columbus.

About this event

We’re looking to get around 20 brilliant minds in a room to collect ideas and recommendations on how Neighbors for More Neighbors Columbus can be a better platform to advocate for increased housing supply and housing diversity throughout Central Ohio.

This event is an opportunity to collectively plan our approach to education, organizing, and advocacy.

Registration is required since we have limited capacity in the space.

Solutions for Housing Communications is the only national convening for housing communications leaders and one of NHC’s premier events. Join housing leaders from across the United States for a full day of sessions on promising communications strategies and tactics to help you expand awareness of the value of affordable housing nationally and in your community. Participants include nonprofit affordable housing developers, local governments, housing authorities, housing finance agencies, financial institutions, intermediaries, and advocacy coalitions. Solutions for Housing Communications 2023 will feature panels on coalition building, branding for manufactured housing, connecting Millennials and Gen Z to housing, and many more.

Throughout our history, there have been organizing movements across the country fighting for civil rights, affordable housing, and social justice. As organizers, we stand on the shoulders of change makers from history as we continue their legacies to ensure that our communities are safe, affordable, and sustainable.

Join our Atlanta Regional Organizer, Asile K. Patin, for a workshop on how to learn from organizing movements in Black History to find your niche in today’s organizing landscape. This workshop will serve as inspiration for you to tune into your strengths, and apply them within the pro-housing movement and beyond.

Join HJN for a listening session to learn more about HUD’s proposed Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule!

This session will provide an overview of the proposed rule, with a focus on:

public housing authorities’ obligations and responsibilities;
community engagement opportunities for HUD assisted households; and
the new complaint and enforcement process.

Who should attend?

HJN attorneys and advocates who are engaged in fair housing advocacy (or want to be), represent HUD assisted households, or work with tenants, organizers or community groups who are trying to improve PHA and/or fair housing policies in their communities

What will we discuss?

We look forward to your participation in a facilitated discussion about the rule and strategies for submitting comments. Some questions to consider:

What different or additional regulatory changes to the rule would be more effective in increasing tenant protections, emphasizing the voices of affordable housing residents who are members of protected classes, and preventing displacement and/or evictions?
Does the rule provide for meaningful community engagement?
Does the planning process provide for a robust analysis for PHAs to examine their own policies and practices? Does it provide for a robust analysis of other program participants’ impediments to fair housing? Does the process set goals for overcoming systemic and longstanding inequities in their jurisdictions?
What clarifications or improvements are needed to the compliance and enforcement procedures in order to provide for meaningful compliance with the AFFH obligation?

Moderator:
Natalie N. Maxwell, National Housing Law Project


Speakers
Christopher Buerger, National Legal Aid & Defender Association
Debby Goldberg, National Fair Housing Alliance
Rasheeda Phillips, PolicyLink
Phillip Tegeler, Poverty & Race Research Action Council

On Friday, January 27, 2023 from 11am - 12pm, GOPC Director of Strategic Engagement Jason Warner will provide an overview of Ohio’s state budget process. Participants will learn more about when and how Ohio lawmakers will enact two of the state’s primary budgets: the state Transportation Budget and the Main Operating Budget. Following the presentation, participants will be able to ask questions.

You must register in advance for the webinar. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. 

On Friday, January 27, 2023 from 11am - 12pm, GOPC Director of Strategic Engagement Jason Warner will provide an overview of Ohio’s state budget process. Participants will learn more about when and how Ohio lawmakers will enact two of the state’s primary budgets: the state Transportation Budget and the Main Operating Budget. Following the presentation, participants will be able to ask questions.

You must register in advance for the webinar. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. 

Every other Thursday at 1:30 p.m. ET, join NAHRO for our bi-weekly Housing Updates from Washington where NAHRO staff discuss the hottest topics coming out of Washington D.C. impacting the housing and redevelopment industry.

This is your opportunity to hear directly from NAHRO about the most pressing issues happening in Washington. Topics range from regulatory updates, Congressional happenings, administration priorities, and anything else NAHRO staff flag as needing immediate attention. By signing up today for our 2023 series you’ll automatically be enrolled for all our sessions for the year.

The MAA Post-Election Update will provide MAA members (and prospective MAA members) with a briefing on election results to date and the anticipated impacts on the industry. The Legislative & Political Affairs team will do a deep dive on the 2022 midterm election results and discuss the possible legislative and regulatory policy implications of the known outcomes. The webinar will emphasize the importance of continued employee engagement in MBA Advocacy programs and initiatives.

Member Price$0.00

Non-Member Price$399.00

Montrose Group is a national boutique consulting company that provides corporate site location, economic development planning, and lobbying services. The Montrose Group in 2022 is providing a series of free corporate site location, economic development and public policy professional development events. Please join the Montrose Group for a free webinar on Thursday, December 1, 2022, from 11am-Noon Eastern Time to learn about the Anatomy of a Housing Study and how housing studies can spur the creation of high-wage jobs and capital investment by addressing the critical quality of life issues.

Why does the word "density" create fear and cause concern in our public conversations about housing?

Join Forecast Public Art's FORWARD series for a panel conversation about how artists are helping to address the housing crisis. Panelists include:

• Dr. Lisa Yun Lee of the National Public Housing Museum and co-lead essayist for FORWARD 5

• Tiff Beattyof the National Public Housing Museum and co-lead essayist for FORWARD 5

• Artist Mark Valdez who is also the co-creator of The Most Beautiful Home... Maybe

• Jennifer Lamb of Southwest Minnesota Housing Partnership, who helped create the play and podcast, A Prairie Homeless Companion

• M oderated by Paul Singh, vice president of Community Initiatives at NeighborWorks America

Amidst a national housing crisis, artists continue to push for bold solutions that aim at alleviating the root causes of housing instability and inequity. Learn how artists are partnering with housing organizations and others to make changes to help bring about housing justice.

This is part of our conversation series for our new digital publication, FORWARD. FORWARD issue #5 focuses on housing. Forecast Public Art is a nonprofit organization. The event is free but donations help us cover the cost.

Read the FORWARD publications:

• Read FORWARD issue #4: Redefining Sustainable Design in Indian Country

• Read FORWARD issue #3: Community Safety

• Read FORWARD issue # 2: Transportation

• Read FORWARD issue #1: Public Health

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This event is hosted by Forecast Public Art.

Forecast Public Art is a non-profit arts organization founded in 1978 by and for artists working in public space. Forecast activates, inspires, and advocates for public art that advances justice, health, and human dignity.

www.forecastpublicart.org

Follow Forecast on social media:

Instagram: @forecastpublicart

Twitter: @4castpublicart

Facebook: Forecast Public Art

Shelterforce will tie its last Under the Lens series—Homes or Cash Cows?—with its new one launching in November by hosting a conversation about how to fight, and win, against corporate landlords and their extractive business models. How are they harming tenants and homebuyers? How can stronger tenant protections curb those abuses? What is the view from the ground from tenant organizers who are having dramatic, and possibly unexpected, wins?

Speakers include:
• Benjamin Teresa, RVA Eviction Lab
• Cornell Crews Jr., Community Reinvestment Alliance of Florida
• Tony Bravo, Monument Impact
• Sofia Lopez, Action Center on Race and the Economy

Moderated by Shelterforce's Miriam Axel-Lute

City Council to vote on:

AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND THE CODE OF ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF GAHANNA, ENACTING CHAPTERS 790, 791 AND 792 TO CREATE A FAIR HOUSING BOARD, TO ESTABLISH HOUSING NONDISCRIMINATION LAWS, AND TO CODIFY AN AFFIRMATIVE DEFENSE TO EVICTION COMMONLY REFERRED TO AS PAY TO STAY

Date: Friday, March 18, 2022Time: 12:15-1:15 pm ET

Location: Virtual

Speaker(s): Jenny Schuetz, Christian Dorsey

The nation’s growing geographic, economic, and demographic divides are reflected in and exacerbated by inequalities in housing markets, argues Jenny Schuetz in her new book, Fixer-Upper: How to Repair America’s Broken Housing Systems. At this event, Schuetz, a senior fellow at Brookings Metro (and former Meyer Fellow at the Center), will discuss the structural problems within US housing systems that contribute to widely disparate outcomes. In addition, she will offer practical—but politically challenging—policy changes than can help build a more equitable and healthy country by providing stable, decent-quality, affordable housing for all. Christian Dorsey, Vice-Chair of the Arlington (VA) County Board and Chair of the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments, will draw on his experiences as an elected official to comment on Schuetz’s presentation.

This event will be held on Zoom; registration is required.

The BlueGreen Alliance Foundation (BGAF) is in the process of developing a ‘QAP scorecard’ in an effort to strengthen standards within the nation’s largest affordable housing program. In addition to energy efficiency and healthy building practices, the scorecard will include an equity section and adopt scoring criteria and best practices for incorporating racial equity provisions in communities assisted by Low-Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTC). BGAF has contracted with Miriam Zuk, Ph.D. of Ground Works Consulting to support us in the development of the equity criteria to be included in the scorecard. This informational sessions will be held to share existing information and to gather input from stakeholders on how to best capture the various ways that LIHTC/QAP intersect with equity for the purposes of the scorecard.

Please contact Miriam Zuk (miriam@groundworksconsulting.org) or Jeff Hurley (jhurley@bluegreenalliance.org) with any questions.

No Struggle, No Progress: Social Justice Organizing in the 21st Century

Thursday, February 3

11:00 a.m. EST

Hasan Kwame Jeffries, PhD

Associate Professor, Department of History

The Ohio State University

Many jurisdictions across the country have exhausted their federal Emergency Rental Assistance funds. While ERA funds have been instrumental in addressing the needs of landlords and tenants over the past many months, there are still many ways that court-based eviction diversion can work across the country. We invite you to join a virtual roundtable discussion on Friday, December 10, from 3-4 pm ET to share programs, practices, and ideas of how courts can innovative and continue partnering with mediation, navigators, housing counselors, and civil legal services to meet the needs of all court users in eviction proceedings. Some ideas are scrappy and can be implemented even without additional funding. Other options will require an investment of funds, and panelists will frame ideas for how courts can build something special and long-lasting when there is, hopefully, additional funding available to support this work.

On November 17th the National Housing Conference will host its Solutions for Affordable Housing online convening to explore policy solutions to address the nation’s most pressing housing challenges. The event will feature influential experts in housing, lending, homelessness, community development, as well as federal, state, and local government officials. Sessions will include the successes and lessons learned from the Emergency Rental Assistance Program, Homeowner’s Assistance Fund, implications of unified rulemaking in CRA modernization, and promise and progress of HUD’s new initiative, House America.

An empowering and educational virtual event!

Activists and Agitators 2021 will take place from 11am-1pm on Oct. 27, 2021. During the event, we will build on conversations happening across our community to redefine the future of housing, education, and community safety. We will discuss a future in our community that is equitable for everyone. And, we will also discuss ways to be intentional about your self-care during change, as we build an inclusive Columbus.

Our event will include engaging speakers, artists, experts, and community organizers to guide us in dreaming about what a more equitable Columbus would look like. We will redefine the role of systems in building our community and how we can build anew to create a Columbus of peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all.

PURCHASE A VIRTUAL PASS

The stakes are high.

Is a deal impossible or inevitable?
Is President Biden siding with progressives or moderates?
Will housing and neighborhoods win big or lose big?
And when will we know?

If you are confused by all the noise, join us to learn what’s really going on.

Join Advocates for Ohio's Future for a webinar about Ohio's $5.36 billion allocation of State Fiscal Recovery Funds from the American Rescue Plan Act. Since these recovery funds were announced on both the state and local levels, we've seen many local governments reach out to their residents to identify and prioritize the needs of their communities through an open, public, transparent process before deciding on an investment/recovery plan.

In June, Governor DeWine and the General Assembly spent more than two-thirds of Ohio’s first payment of $2.7 billion. They did this with no opportunity for public input. With $850 million remaining of the first payment and $2.7 billion more yet to come, Ohio needs to have a robust state recovery plan. Since there are no plans from the Administration or the General Assembly to hold hearings, we thought we would have one of our own.

AOF members have a lot to say on what everyday Ohioans need for health and economic recovery. Our friends from:
-Ohio Association of Foodbanks
-Children's Defense Fund Ohio
-Ohio Poverty Law Center
-Coalition on Homelessness and Housing in Ohio
-Enterprise Community Partners
-The Ohio Council of Behavioral Health and Family Services Providers
-Ohio Council for Home Care & Hospice

...will share their priorities, why investments in their proposal is needed and what impact they will have for the populations they serve. We hope you will join us!

The pandemic-exacerbated housing crisis demands an all-hands-on-deck approach. Residents, practitioners, policymakers, funders, and researchers must come together to learn and act in real time to keep renters stably housed. The Housing Crisis Research Collaborative was launched in April 2020 to solicit and respond to the most pressing questions policymakers and practitioners have faced throughout the pandemic. Comprising four research institutions, seven practitioner networks, and various partner researchers, the collaborative works in real time to address questions around what forms of rental assistance and eviction prevention show the most promise, how renters are responding to financial stress, how landlords are responding to arrears, and which regulatory and legislative fixes have been most effective.

Join the Housing Crisis Research Collaborative and the Urban Institute for insights from published and upcoming research on how policymakers, researchers, community members, and funders can work together to support the stabilization of renters in the US during and beyond the pandemic.

SPEAKERS

• Lisa Bates, Associate Professor, Toulan School of Urban Studies and Planning, Portland State University

• Elijah de la Campa, Senior Research Associate in Economics and Urban Analytics, Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative

• Nathaniel Decker, Postdoctoral Scholar, Terner Center for Housing Innovation, University of California, Berkeley

• Lauren Lowery, Program Director, Housing and Community Development, National League of Cities

• Mark Treskon, Senior Research Associate, Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center, Urban Institute

• Reed Jordan, Housing Affordability Grant Program Manager, Wells Fargo (moderator)

• Mercedeh Mortazavi, Vice President, Global Philanthropy, JPMorgan Chase & Co. (moderator)

September 29, 2021, Morning Roundtable (Virtual, 8:30-10:00 am)

National Speaker: Rick Kahlenberg, Senior Fellow, The Century Foundation, who has written about Move to PROSPER.

Moderator: Steve Francis, President and Lead Strategist at Franchise D&I Solutions

Panelists:
Catherine Kennedy, Columbus Communities Coalition for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Shiloh Todorov, Move to PROSPER
Judy Sonnett, Managing Partner, The Center for Leadership and Innovation

The economic shock of the pandemic has taken a financial toll on tenants and landlords, including providers of affordable housing. Many housing providers are facing significant financial pressures, from rising insurance rates to declining collections. Providers of affordable housing are navigating significant stresses on their portfolios while continuing to address the needs of their buildings and tenants. In the long run, the challenges facing providers and tenants alike threaten to destabilize the long-term feasibility of the nation’s housing stock. Join Enterprise and other housing providers to learn how they are balancing financial losses to ensure tenants' long-term housing stability – and the impact on affordable housing preservation.

Speakers will include:
Jacqueline Waggoner, President, Enterprise Community Partners Solutions Division
Maria Torres-Springer, Vice President for US Programs, Ford Foundation
Brian McLaughlin, President, Enterprise Community Development
Michael Butchko, Vice President of Business Intelligence, NeighborWorks
Gayle Filo, President, Enterprise Residential
Dontae Latson, Executive Director, Rocky Mountain Communities
Trevor Samios, Senior Vice President of Connected Communities, WinnCompanies

This event is part of a four-part webinar series supported by JPMorgan Chase & Company. Past sessions are on Enterprise Community Partners’ YouTube channel. Our July panel, Eviction Prevention as a Preservation Strategy, examined the link between ensuring residents can remain in their homes and affordable housing preservation. Our August panel, How to Harness the Legal System to Prevent Evictions, considered how the judicial and legal systems can provide an innovative pathway to protect residents from eviction and allow landlords to collect back rent.

*I understand that my registration also subscribes me to future announcements and related content about Enterprise Community Partners.

Hack-A-House is a yearly 24-hour “hackathon” style competition created to tackle the affordable housing crisis that the United States currently faces.  Students are encouraged to engage with leading voices in an exploration of housing affordability.  Through innovation, participants can help solidify economic opportunity for vulnerable populations in their communities and beyond.

Sign ups are now open! You may sign up as a team or an individual. Individuals may choose to be placed on another team or compete on their own.

Come together with the 2019-2021 Enterprise Rose Fellows for through connection and story. In the spirit of John O’Neal and Free Southern Theater’s story circles, the outgoing Rose Fellow class will share stories about community, care, and the future we imagine. We will reflect upon the lessons of COVID, summer 2020 uprisings, and micro community work and how those lessons might help us create the blueprint for a more just and equitable future. ***This is session is warmly open to the public including friends, colleagues and partners ***