REGISTER: Unaffordable Housing: How Do States Step In ( ... & Step Up)?
A LIVE broadcast event with Council on Communities of Color at the Council of State Governments Eastern Regional Conference on rising housing costs and what states can do
a CSG East feature
When …
Friday, December 2, 2022
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EST
Where …
LIVE on WURD radio and by webinar
About this event …
The CSG East Council on Communities of Color is bringing back its popular Microsummit Series. New episodes re-start as a LIVE webinar and broadcast mix beginning this Friday, 12.2.22 at 10am ET. Our latest focus will be "Unaffordable Housing: How Do States Step In?"
This next installment is being produced in partnership with WURD and theBEnote.com.
These exclusive and open-to-the-public microsummits offer insights, analysis and policy prescriptions for numerous challenges communities face while economic uncertainty, disruptive politics, public health challenges and climate crisis converge. This next microsummit will be broadcast LIVE on WURD while taking place via Zoom on Friday, December 2nd at 10am - 11am ET.
These Council on Communities of Color Microsummits are also produced by the B|E Note B|Estates project and moderated by CSG East Senior Fellow Charles Ellison. It is a unique convening of state and local policy makers, experts and thinkers concerned about ongoing equity gaps and how to close them.
According to recent data released by Redfin, the average annual income needed to purchase a median-priced home in the United States rose from $74,000 in 2021 to now $107,000 - that's an astonishing increase of 46 percent. Rents rose 23 percent from the second quarter of 2019 to the same quarter this year, according to Axios, as landlords passed on costs to tenants. Meanwhile, wages are falling on average. With housing so expensive, how can people and families afford it? Where do people live? What are some solutions we need to start looking at? What can communities do? And, since this is a problem not only impacting cities, but suburban, exurban and rural areas, too, what role do states and their policymakers play?
Our experts for this conversation will be ...
NY State Senator Kevin Parker (New York), CSG East CCC Chair
PA State Senator Nikil Saval (Philadelphia)
Lauren Bealore, Associate Director of State & Local Policy, Prosperity Now
Sabrina Bazile, Senior Program Manager, Center for NYC Neighborhoods
Moderator
Charles Ellison, CSG East Fellow | Host of "Reality Check" on WURD radio | Publisher, theBEnote.com
This Microsummit is free and open to the public. If you have questions for panelists during the event, please register for the webinar so you can submit questions and comments via Zoom chat.