| Notes |
After a generation of investment, affordable housing and services providers are seeking evidence of an additive, positive economic effect when housing includes embedded supports, services, and employment opportunity. While evidence is limited, efforts to sustain and scale access to affordable housing and services as a platform for economic mobility are evolving rapidly, including new approaches to data collection; evolving trauma-informed, people-centered mobility supports and services; new approaches to building a professional field; and efforts to offer financing incentives for developers embedding services.
Enterprise Community Partners and the Urban Institute will release research citing the evidence base, exploring practices for one- and two-generation economic mobility outcomes within and beyond the field, and suggesting next steps for housing providers, government, service providers, and employers.
Laurel Blatchford, president of Enterprise Community Partners, and J. Ronald Terwilliger, vice chairman of the Enterprise Community Investment board of directors and member of the Urban Institute’s board of trustees, will provide opening remarks. Margery Turner, senior vice president, and Megan Gallagher, senior research associate, of the Urban Institute will share the research, and a discussion from a panel of leaders in affordable housing and innovative service delivery will follow.
Opening Remarks:
Eric Belsky, Director Division of Consumer and Community Affairs, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Laurel Blatchford, President, Enterprise Community Partners
Framing Remarks:
J. Ronald Terwilliger, Chairman Emeritus, Trammell Crow Residential
Presenting of the Findings:
Margery Austin Turner, Senior Vice President for Program Planning and Management, Urban Institute
Megan Gallagher, Senior Research Associate, Urban Institute
Panelists:
Kelly Dougherty, Chief Program Officer, The HOPE Program
Judy Parks, Vice President, Mobility Mentoring Programs and Services, EMpath
Sherry Riva, Founder and Executive Director, Compass Working Capital
Margery Austin Turner, Senior Vice President, Program Planning and Management, Urban Institute
Lisa Wilcox-Erhardt, Executive Vice President, Housing and Services, CommonBond Communities |