The Urban Institute hosted a special evening seminar with key senior housing and housing finance officials from both sides of the aisle who reflected on the most challenging issues of the day. 

Panel One: Senior Obama administration officials discuss how they faced housing policy challenges coming out of the crisis.

• Jared Bernstein, former chief economist and economic adviser to vice president Joe Biden
• Phyllis Caldwell, former chief, Homeownership Preservation Office, US Treasury
• Carol Galante, former commissioner, Federal Housing Administration 
• Michael Stegman, former counselor to the secretary, US Treasury; former senior adviser, National Economic Council 
• Antonio Weiss, counselor to the secretary, US Treasury 
• Jim Parrott, senior fellow, Urban Institute; former senior adviser, National Economic Council (moderator)

Panel Two: Key thought leaders discuss where we are likely to go on these issues in the years to come.

• Michael Bright, director, Center for Financial Markets, Milken Institute
• Mark Calabria, director, financial regulation studies, Cato Institute
• Shawn Krause, executive vice president, Quicken Loans
• Rick Lazio, partner at Jones Walker LLP; former member, House of Representatives (R-NY-2)
• Sarah Rosen Wartell, president, Urban Institute (moderator)

Event materials 

• Agenda 
• Speaker Biographies

For inquiries regarding this event, please contact [email protected].