38 SESSIONS & 2 LIVE PANEL DISCUSSIONS

5 Q&A WEBINARS

Over 50 experts sharing their knowledge about many different parts of a comprehensive strategy to tackle the crisis in housing affordability.

*We had so much content, we added an Extra Day!

Storm Cunningham, Author of the RE trilogy of books

• In 2002, The Restoration Economy advanced today’s resilience trends. Praised globally. Learn more!

• In 2008, reWealth! (McGraw-Hill) revealed restorative development’s revitalizing secrects. Learn more!

• In 2020, RECONOMICS: The Path to Resilient Prosperity shows how to achieve economic growth, crisis recovery and community resilience together. A crucial guide for public and private leaders! Learn more!

Michael Shuman, Attorney, Economist, Entrepreneur, and Author of several books.

• In 2000, “Going Local: Creating Self-Reliant Communities in a Global Age” (Routledge).

• In 2012, “Local Dollars, Local Sense: How to Shift Your Money from Wall Street to Main Street and Achieve”

• In 2015, “The Local Economy Solution: How Innovative, Self-Financing ‘Pollinator’ Enterprises Can Grow Jobs and Prosperity” (Chelsea Green).

• In 2020, “Put Your Money Where Your Life Is” (Berrett-Koehler)

Amy Appleton, founder of SHARE Sonoma, an inspiring example of a home sharing program that has responded to the crisis in Sonoma County ranging from the extensive fires in 2017 to the current COVID-19 pandemic.

Richard Taylor, Director of Business Development at eTRansX.

Eric Eggleston, Executive Director, Youth Development USA

EXPANDING ACCESSORY DWELLING UNITS (ADUS) OR TINY HOMES

— Different Construction Options

• Manufactured (e.g.)

  • Innovative design (Boxabl)

  • Manufactured from shipping containers

  • Other modular manufacturing techniques

• Building with Structured Insulated Panels (SIPs)

• Streamlined construction by contractors (standardized, code-approved plans)

• Custom-built

• Built by students in schools or other training programs

• Do-It-Yourself (starting with a mass-built shell, time exchange and tool library)

• Build Your Own (eLearning course)

— Addressing Zoning, Policy, Bureaucratic and Political Barriers

• Overcoming resistance from “Neighborhood Defenders” (NIMBY)

• Examples of zoning transformation (Minneapolis experience)

• Why “up-zoning” alone is not enough

• Streamlining to overcome other barriers

  • Giving away detailed plans that are pre-approved for code compliance

  • Waiving fees (but generating more revenue by volume)

  • Addressing parking restrictions and other obstacles

• Creatively sub-dividing an “unsubdividable” residential lot

• Taking actions at the state level

— Having a micro-developer turn your backyard into cash—so you can stay in your home!

Building the Social Side of Communities (more than just sticks and bricks)

• Creating “Communities of Hope” in Detroit’s apartment complexes

• Developing pocket neighborhoods

• The secret sauce of co-housing  

Meeting the Needs of People with Complex Challenges

• Helping people develop a “map of their dreams”

• Adding the “Supportive” to the Housing

• Innovative technology to streamline and coordinate community care to support personal success plans

• Leveraging Medicare’s Chronic Care Management funding (along with technology and outsourced telehealth) to support successful aging in place.

• Innovations in recovery housing

• Economical plans to house the homeless

• Innovative ways that faith communities are helping the homeless

Home-sharing

• Why it works

• Common mistakes to avoid

• Pro-active practices to scale it up

• Creative models (co-housing, etc.)

Enhancing Home Ownership

• Helping people start the journey to become a home-owner (budgeting, saving, learning)

• Helping people build their credit scores

• A mortgage company that is actually supporting new homeowners of color

• Special programs to support

Innovations in Financing

• Charitable Capital

• Crowd-funding

• Pay for Success models

Innovations in Ownership Models

• Community Land Trusts

• Shared Equity

• Shared Appreciation

• Limited Equity Housing Cooperatives

The Big-Picture Strategy

• A Strategy Map Template for Naturally Affordable Housing

• Putting the Puzzle Pieces together: Designing and Implementing the Strategy

• Breaking Out of the Housing Trap – A Strong Towns Approach

• Integrating Fair Housing into your Community Strategy

• How Strategies to Increase Affordable Housing and Help Address Climate Change

Harnessing the Power of Youth

• Students and schools building ADUs

• Using the building of tiny houses to teach math and geometry

• Developing (and leveraging) the opportunity youth though an entrepreneurial workforce development program.

• Millennials building their own ADUs

Rapid Responses to the COVID-19 Housing Apocalypse

• Five recommendations for fast action

• Using the crisis to address the underlying problem of predatory landlords

• Introducing the serial eBook on “The COVID-19 Housing Crisis can SAVE Your City. Here’s How.”