The 2020 Housing Summit is back and in a virtual three-part series where we will explore policies, practices and potential solutions to address our housing crisis.
- Demystifying the Missing Middle | July 29
- New Solutions to Foundational Challenges | August 11
- Bringing it Home | September 10
A conversation between Alicia Glen and Conor Dougherty about the economics of why housing is so expensive to build and buy, long held policies we should reconsider and ways local gov can invite, not just plan for housing.
Speakers:
Conor Dougherty is an economics reporter at The New York Times and the author of Golden Gates: fighting for Housing in America. His work focuses on the West Coast, real estate and wage stagnation among U.S. workers. Mr. Dougherty has covered economics and real estate on and off for a decade at both The Times and The Wall Street Journal. Before that he worked at The San Diego Union-Tribune and The Los Angeles Business Journal. He lives in Oakland, Calif., and is a Bay Area native.
Alicia Glen is the Founder & Managing Principal of MSquared and a nationally recognized expert in urban development, infrastructure finance, job creation, and housing policy.
As New York City Deputy Mayor from 2014 to 2019, Alicia was the architect of “Housing New York” – the largest housing plan in the nation – and developed and financed over 125,000 affordable homes, shattering all previous records. She also created “NYCHA 2.0,” a stabilization and modernization plan to generate $24 billion in funds for renovations and essential capital repairs across NYCHA’s portfolio by converting units to private management and building new mixed-income projects.
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