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 Overview Connect @ SWF Final Program Conference Resources Conference Speakers Planning Committee Sponsors Exhibitors | Keynote Speakers Solutions for Working Families: 2009 Learning Conference on State and Local Housing Policy provided participants with the opportunity to hear from well-known keynote speakers throughout the event. The plenary sessions were among the many highlights of the conference and we are pleased to provide audio recordings of those sessions below: Listen to the Welcoming Remarks from Jeff Lubell and Allen Jones Listen to Carol Coletta at the Opening Plenary Listen to Henry Cisneros at the Special Plenary Listen to Bruce Katz at the Federal Policy Plenary Listen to Sec. Shaun Donovan at the Town Hall Plenary Listen to Lubell, Retsinas, Klein, McCarthy, and Poticha at the Town Hall Plenary Welcoming Remarks—Featuring Jeffrey Lubell and Allen Jones Sunday, June 28 of America in August of 2004 from the Department of Housing and Urban Development, where he served as a Senior Advisor to the Federal Housing Commissioner. Mr. Jones has additional experience at KPMG Consulting where he led mortgage lending engagements with top 10 lenders and at HUD. Earlier at Freddie Mac, Mr. Jones managed the development of Loan Prospector for FHA and VA Loans.A native and current resident of Arlington, Virginia, Mr. Jones graduated from the University of Richmond. A Community Advisor to the Board of Directors of the Arlington Free Clinic, an organization recognized by Bank of America as a Neighborhood Champion and the recipient of a $200,000 grant, Mr. Jones has also served on the Board of the Virginia Housing Development Authority.
Development and Research at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. He also worked from 1998 to 2000 as a housing policy analyst for the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a nonprofit organization that is one of the leading independent authorities on programs affecting low-income families. Lubell is a graduate of Harvard Law School and Harvard College.
Opening Plenary—Featuring Carol Coletta Sunday, June 28
Carol was a Knight Fellow in Community Building for 2003 at the University of Miami School of Architecture and is currently a candidate for a Master of Design Methods at the Institute of Design at IIT. She is frequently interviewed as an expert on urban issues by national media and is an active speaker on the success formula for cities and creative communities. This year she was named one of the world's 50 most important urban experts by a leading European think tank.
Special Plenary—Featuring Henry Cisneros Sunday, June 28
In 1992, President Clinton appointed Mr. Cisneros to be Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. In his role as the President’s chief representative to the nation’s cities, Mr. Cisneros personally worked in more than 200 U.S. cities in every one of the 50 states. After leaving HUD in 1997, Mr. Cisneros was president and chief operating officer of Univision Communications, the Spanish-language broadcaster which has become the fifth-most-watched television network in the nation. Mr. Cisneros currently serves on Univision’s Board of Directors. In June 2007 Mr. Cisneros was inducted into the National Association of Homebuilders (NAHB) “Builders Hall of Fame” and honored by the National Housing Conference as the “Housing Person of the Year.” Mr. Cisneros has also been author, editor or collaborator in several books Mr. Cisneros holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Master’s degree in Urban and Regional Planning from Texas A&M University. He earned a Master’s degree in Public Administration from Harvard University, studied urban economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, holds a Doctorate in Public Administration from George Washington University, and has been awarded more than 20 honorary doctorates from leading universities. He served as an infantry officer in the United States Army.
Federal Policy Luncheon—Featuring Bruce Katz Monday, June 29
Recently, he served on the Obama transition team, and as a Sr. Advisor to HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan. In 2006, Bruce received the prestigious Heinz Award in Public Policy for his contributions to urban and metropolitan America. Mr. Katz is a frequent writer and commentator on urban and metropolitan issues. He is the editor or co-editor of several books on transportation, demographics, and regionalism. His op-eds and articles have appeared in a wide range of major national and regional newspapers. Before joining Brookings, Mr. Katz served as Chief of Staff to Henry G. Cisneros, former Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Mr. Katz has also served as the staff director of the Senate Subcommittee on Housing and Urban Affairs. He is also a Visiting Professor of Social Policy at the London School of Economics. Mr. Katz is a graduate of Brown University and Yale Law School.
Town Hall Plenary—Featuring Shaun Donovan, Nic Retsinas, William Klein, George McCarthy, and Shelley Poticha Tuesday, June 30
Before his service as HPD Commissioner, Secretary Donovan worked in the private sector on affordable housing portfolios, and was a visiting scholar at New York University, where he researched and wrote about the preservation of federally-assisted housing. He was also a consultant to the Millennial Housing Commission on strategies for increasing the production of multifamily housing. The Commission was created by the United States Congress to recommend ways to expand housing opportunities across the nation. Secretary Donovan rejoins HUD after his previous service as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Multifamily Housing, where he was the primary federal official responsible for privately-owned multifamily housing. At that time, he ran housing programs that helped 1.7 million families access affordable housing. He also served as acting FHA Commissioner during the presidential transition. Prior to his first service at HUD, he worked at the Community Preservation Corporation (CPC) in New York City, a non-profit lender and developer of affordable housing. He also researched and wrote about housing policy at the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University and worked as an architect. Secretary Donovan holds Masters degrees in Public Administration and Architecture from Harvard University.
For 17 years, Mr. Klein was director of the Nantucket Planning and Economic Development Commission, one of Massachusetts’ 13 regional planning agencies. Before that, he was director of community development for Local Government Research Corporation, a private consulting firm in Pennsylvania. Mr. Klein has an A.B. degree from Colgate University in Liberal Arts, a Masters of Regional Planning degree from Penn State, and was awarded a Loeb Fellowship in Advanced Environmental Studies at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University.
Before joining Ford, Mac worked as a Senior Research Associate at the Center for Urban and Regional Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has worked as Professor of Economics at Bard College, Resident Scholar at the Jerome Levy Economics Institute, Visiting Scholar and Member of the High Table at King's College of Cambridge University, Visiting Scholar at the University of Naples, and Research Associate at the Centre for Social Research in St. Petersburg, Russia. Mac received a BA in Economics and Mathematics at the University of Montana; an MA in Economics at Duke University; and, a Ph. D. in Economics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
to spur a new wave of development that improves housing affordability and choice, revitalizes downtowns and urban and suburban neighborhoods, and creates lasting value and high quality urbanism; and Reconnecting America’s Transportation Networks (RATN) which is working to redefine national policies for intercity travel in order to integrate our separately functioning aviation, passenger rail and intercity bus systems into a more convenient, secure, financially viable and sustainable network. Prior to this position, Ms. Poticha was the Executive Director of the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU). The Congress for New Urbanism is an internationally known non-profit organization dedicated to teaching and implementing the principles of New Urbanism and as identified in their Charter, advocates the restructuring of public policy and development practices to support diverse neighborhoods; communities designed for pedestrians, public transit as well as the automobile; physically defined and universally accessible public spaces; and an environment that celebrates local history, ecology and building practice. During her tenure, Ms. Poticha guided CNU’s growth into a nationwide coalition with a prominent voice in national debates on urban revitalization, growth policy, and sprawl. She has authored several books, including the New Transit Town: Best Practices in Transit-Oriented Development, Charter of the New Urbanism, a CNU publication, and The Next American Metropolis, with Peter Calthorpe. Ms. Poticha is an urban planner with expertise in land use planning, policy development, and citizen involvement. With Calthorpe Associates, she directed the firm's planning efforts, with an emphasis on land planning, design guidelines and implementation programs. She has been involved with the writing of two documents for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development: Vision/Reality: Strategies for Community Change and the Empowerment Zone Guidebook and has experience preparing plans for growing urban and suburban communities, regional agencies, non-profit groups, and private developers. Ms. Poticha holds a Master of City Planning from the University of California at Berkeley and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Mr. Retsinas also served the State of Rhode Island as the Executive Director of the Rhode Island Housing and Mortgage Finance Corporation from 1987 to 1993. He received his master’s degree in city planning from Harvard University and his AB in economics from New York University. In 2008, he received an honorary Doctorate in Public Service from Rhode Island College. Mr. Retsinas has lectured and written extensively on housing, community development and banking issues. He is a Fellow at the National Academy for Public Administration and the Urban Land Institute.
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