Using History to Inform the Housing Challenges of 21st Century Cities

Join us for a discussion about housing’s role in driving urban development over the last several decades and what local partnerships and solutions look like today. Using a newly released book by Lizabeth Cohen, Saving America’s Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age, as a launch point, our conversation will bring together DC-based housing and development practitioners and policymakers to discuss how they work together to catalyze housing as a tool for equitable and effective urban redevelopment.

Speakers:

• Lizabeth Cohen, Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies and Distinguished Service Professor, Harvard University
• Kimberly Driggins, Executive Director, Washington Housing Conservancy
• Jamie Gorelick, Board Chair, Urban Institute and Partner, WilmerHale
• Ramon Jacobson, Executive Director, Local Initiatives Support Corporation DC
• Lance Loethen, Vice President, Research, Opportunity Finance Network
• Tom Nida, Executive Vice President, Market Executive, City First Bank
• Sasha-Ann Simons, Reporter, Race and Identity, WAMU
• Gustavo Velasquez, Senior Director, Urban–Greater DC, Urban Institute

SPOTLIGHTING CURRENT DEBATES THROUGH ART

The Urban Institute hosts engaging conversations with of-the-moment artists and authors through film screenings, book releases, and other events that connect policy decisions to communities and bring evidence to life. 

Registration and reception will be available at 5:00 p.m. Networking reception to continue after the program.

Please contact [email protected] with questions regarding this event.