Covid, Housing, and Equity: On Millenials and Missing Middle Housing
Please join our Founder/CEO as she moderates a discussion around Millenials and Missing Middle Housing, centered around addressing the need for more affordable, family-friendly housing in an equitable and inclusive way. She will guide her renowned panelists - with backgrounds in academia, the private, non-profit, and public sectors - through a dynamic, candid conversation on tools, strategies and processes that get to the structural issues, exacerbated by a post-Covid world, that have led to significant racial and class disparities and spatial injustices as it concerns Millenials’ access to housing. The panel is part of the New Cities Foundation “New Housing Solutions LIVE” 3-day virtual conference! The conference runs from July 14th - 16th, and her panel is on Wednesday, July 15th at 11am EDT!
For Mariela, this is personal. While she missed the “Millenial” mark by a few years, the tie between housing, transportation, land use, and access to quality of life resources - namely education - shaped her lived experience indelibly, leading her to advocate for better, more inclusive and accessible, urban design. She’s excited to bring this perspective to the discussion. Read more about her story here.
Mariela is very excited to facilitate an important conversation between:
Issi Romem: Issi is the founder of MetroSight and a fellow at the Terner Center for Housing Innovation at U.C. Berkeley. He has also served as Chief Economist of Trulia and Senior Director of Housing & Urban Economics at Zillow. His research and writing on metropolitan growth patterns, construction trends and housing has been featured in major publications including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg and more. He regularly speaks at industry and research forums. Prior to that, Issi served as Chief Economist of BuildZoom, advised the Rentonomics team at Apartment List, and worked as an economist at OnPoint Analytics and the Bay Area Council.
Albus Brooks: Albus is the Vice President of Business Development and Strategy for Milender White, a development and construction firm in Southern California and Colorado. A former decorated University of Colorado football player, minister, and cancer-survivor, Brooks brings a unique perspective to community development work. In 2011, Albus defeated 38 opponents to become the youngest African American ever elected to Denver City Council. Serving two terms on Denver City Council, including two terms as Council President, Albus accomplished an ambitious range of progressive legislative victories with the goal of building a truly inclusive city. He also served as the Director of the Issachar Center for Urban Leadership, an organization that invests in Denver’s emerging leaders.
Craig Sauvé: Craig currently serves as a City Councillor for the Sud-Ouest Borough & a Special Advisor for the Montreal City Council. He is also the Vice-chair of the board of directors of the Société de transport de Montréal. He was also a founding board member of the Civic Action League, an organisation grouping concerned citizens, elected officials, political candidates and organisers who, in the wake of the collusion and corruption revelations, proposed constructive solutions to the situation. He was also a parliamentary assistant in Ottawa and regional campaign director in the 2011 federal general election. Mr. Sauvé currently sits on the Transportation and Public Works Committee and the Council Presidency Committee at City Hall.
Please mark your calendars for the WHOLE conference, and don’t miss her session on Wednesday, July 15th, at 11am EDT!