Leveraging Affordable Housing to Advance Economic Mobility in NYC
On July 15th, the Center for an Urban Future held our third annual NYC Economic Mobility Summit to explore the important, but often overlooked, connection between housing and economic mobility.
This year’s summit explored the important, but often overlooked, connection between housing and economic mobility. While there is an exciting consensus emerging that New York will need to develop a significant amount of new affordable housing to address the city’s affordability crisis, the summit discussed how the city can also leverage housing policy to expand economic mobility, asset building, and wealth creation—and ensure that a lot more New Yorkers are able to not just get by, but get ahead.
This timely event featured several compelling, solutions-focused conversations. Among other things, it explored opportunities for NYC to leverage housing policy to expand pathways to home ownership and asset building, discussed how city leaders can open doors to opportunity-rich neighborhoods through leveraging vouchers that support long-term mobility, and examined how housing instability has become a barrier to college and career success for so many CUNY students—and what policymakers can do about it.
Click here to view the full replay of the event, or check out direct links below to the many individual segments of the event, which included:
Keynote remarks by Deputy Mayor for Housing and Planning Leila Bozorg
One-on-one fireside chats with:
City Council Speaker Julie Menin
HPD Commissioner Dina Levy
CUNY Chancellor Félix V. Matos Rodríguez
An extended panel discussion featuring:
Rafael Cestero, President & CEO, Community Preservation Corporation
John Edward Dallas, Director, Interboro Community Land Trust
Christie Peale, CEO & Executive Director, Center for NYC Neighborhoods
Barika Williams, Executive Director, Association for Neighborhood & Housing Development
Thomas Yu, Executive Director, Asian Americans for Equality
A dynamic panel featuring:
David R. Jones, President & CEO, Community Service Society
Maria Torres-Springer, President, The Charles H. Revson Foundation
Molly Wasow Park, CEO, NYC Housing Partnership
And five idea pitches from the Center for an Urban Future's new "5 Ideas to Advance Economic Mobility in NYC" report:
This summit was made possible through generous support from Citi Foundation. We are also grateful for general support from The Clark Foundation, the Bernard F. and Alva B. Gimbel Foundation, Robin Hood, the Altman Foundation, and ongoing support from a number of other philanthropic funders.
