Overview
With support from the MacArthur Foundation, the Brookings Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy and Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing hosted a two day convening on Housing and Working Families. This two-day event was designed to inform the Foundation’s grantmaking in the housing and working families arena, as well as advance conversation and collaboration between these two often disparate areas. This convening involved nearly 40 participants from the research, policy, advocacy, and industry communities.
Goals
1) Help bring together individuals and organizations from the housing community and working families community with expertise in the areas of research, policy development, and implementation, in order to build synergy between them and encourage collaboration in their efforts.
2) Identify promising opportunities for further research, policy analysis, and reform that surface and support the link between housing and other social outcomes.
Agenda
Thursday, June 19
12:00 Welcome and Introductions
Erika Poethig, The MacArthur Foundation
Bruce Katz, Vice President and Director, The Brookings Institution, Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy
Nic Retsinas, Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
Introduction to Housing and Working Families
Presenter: Barbara Sard, Center on Budget Policy and Priorities