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Housing Solutions Week 2010
From March 23 to March 26, the Center for Housing Policy and National Housing Conference hosted a series of events focusing on high-impact solutions to solving the nation's affordable housing challenges. The week kicked off with the release of an updated Paycheck to Paycheck, the Center's online, interactive database with information on more than 60 occupations and home prices and rents in more than 200 metropolitan areas. The rest of the week focused on solutions to these challenges.
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Tuesday, March 23
The Center for Housing Policy's Paycheck to Paycheck online, interactive database provides a snapshot of housing affordability for workers across the country. This regularly updated database includes wages for more than 60 occupations and home prices and rents in more than 200 metropolitan areas. Visitors can either select a metropolitan area and see whether housing is affordable for a selection of workers in the area, or select an occupation and assess housing affordability for workers across several metropolitan areas.
In addition to Paycheck to Paycheck's traditional featured occupations (teachers, police officers, nurses, retail workers, and janitors), this year's report will highlight several "green economy" jobs, including insulation workers, HVAC mechanics, and environmental engineering technicians, to see how their wages stack up against housing costs.
Wednesday, March 24 Please join us from 1 - 2:00 p.m. Eastern (10 - 11:00 a.m. Pacific) for a Webinar presentation introducing a new online housing policy toolkit, developed in collaboration with AARP and focused on meeting the housing needs of Americans age 50 and over.
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The "Meet the Housing Needs of Older Adults" toolkit is organized into three sections, addressing (1) how to provide housing for older adults that is not only affordable but also designed to accommodate a variety of physical abilities; (2) how to design communities in a way that allows older adults to access the services they need and want; and (3) housing alternatives available to older adults who wish to live independently.
This Webinar presentation features Rodney Harrell of AARP's Public Policy Institute, with Rebecca Cohen and Emily Salomon from the Center for Housing Policy.
Join us from 3 - 4:00 p.m. Eastern (12 - 1:00 p.m. Pacific) for a Webinar discussion of how the Washington, DC region has responded to the foreclosure crisis. The session will also take a closer look at data tools available on Foreclosure-Response.org that you can use to analyze the needs of your community.
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Foreclosure-Response.org launched during Housing Solutions Week 2009, and provides tools to help states and localities develop a strategy for responding to the mortgage foreclosure crisis. This Webinar will take a fresh look at recently-updated data available on Foreclosure-Response.org, and describe partnerships within the Washington, DC region that may serve as a model for other communities.
This Webinar presentation features Leah Hendey of the Urban Institute and Francisca Winston of LISC discussing data tools on Foreclosure-Response.org, with Peter Tatian, also of the Urban Institute, and Marian Siegel of Housing Counseling Services, Inc. discussing initiatives in Washington, DC.
Thursday, March 25
Call in at 1:00 p.m. Eastern (10 a.m. Pacific) for 2-hour a Live at the Forum event describing this new section of HousingPolicy.org and a series of related policy briefs, developed with support from NHC Housing Leadership Support Program member WeatherPredict Consulting.
NEW: Listen to a recording of the call or visit the Forum to view Q&A from this session
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This discussion will introduce this new toolkit, which describes proactive measures that states and localities can take to reduce the loss of human life and protect homes vulnerable to natural disasters from property damage. In particular, the toolkit and policy briefs explore ways to help lower income families pay for upgrades and retrofits that can make their homes more resilient to disasters. The Live at the Forum event will also provide information on advocacy efforts and programs aimed at expanding financial support for disaster resistant home construction and renovations, as well as combining funding streams and incentives for home disaster resistance and energy efficiency.
The two-part event begins at 1:00 p.m. EDT with a 30-minute conference call in which speakers will share their experiences with designing, implementing, and managing successful programs at the state and local levels that help make homes more resistant to natural disasters. Folllowing the call, from 1:30 - 3:00 p.m. EDT, the speakers will be online to answer your questions.
Speakers include Ryan Sherriff of the Center for Housing Policy and Mike Cohen of RenaissanceRe - an affiliate of WeatherPredict Consulting, with Leslie Chapman-Henderson, Federal Alliance for Safe Homes (FLASH), and Ann Roberson, South Carlina Hurricane Damage Mitigation Program (SC Safe Home).
Friday, March 26
- Release of Two Papers on Coordinating Housing, Transportation, and Workforce Policies
Call in at 1:00 p.m. Eastern (10 a.m. Pacific) for a 2-hour Live at the Forum event featuring findings from two new policy briefs from the Center for Housing Policy and Chicago's Metropolitan Planning Council that address the coordination of housing, transportation, and land use policies.
NEW:
Listen to a recording of
the call or visit the Forum to view Q&A from this session
Additional detailsThe new policy briefs, "How Transportation Reform Could Increase the Availability of Housing Affordable to Families with a Mix of Incomes Near Public Transit, Job Centers, and Other Essential Destinations," and "Regional Coordination in Atlanta Metro and in the Twin Cities: Understanding the Challenges and Opportunities of Coordinating Housing, Transportation and Workforce Policies," are based on a series of listening sessions that took place in the Atlanta and Twin Cities regions and brought together local and state government, the workforce sector, housing and transportation agencies, and advocacy groups to discuss positive examples of coordination across silos, as well as challenges to working across policy areas.The two-part event begins at 1:00 p.m. EDT with a 30-minute conference call. Following the call, from 1:30 - 3:00 p.m. EDT, the speakers will be online to answer your questions.
Speakers include Emily Salomon from the Center for Housing Policy and Robin Snyderman from the Metropolitan Planning Council. Susan Adams of the Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership, Inc. and Caren Dewar of ULI Minnesota will also share their on-the-ground experiences.
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