"Leveraging Affordable Housing to Advance Economic Mobility in NYC"
The Center for an Urban Future's third annual NYC Economic Mobility Summit

Event materials
Replay of the event 

Speakers included:

• City Council Speaker Julie Menin
• Deputy Mayor for Housing and Planning Leila Bozorg
• HPD Commissioner Dina Levy
• CUNY Chancellor Félix V. Matos Rodríguez
• Rafael Cestero, President & CEO, Community Preservation Corporation (CPC)
• John Edward Dallas, Director, Interboro Community Land Trust
• David R. Jones, President & CEO, Community Service Society (CSS)
• Brandee McHale, Head of Community Investing and Development at Citi and President of the Citi Foundation
• Christie Peale, CEO & Executive Director, Center for NYC Neighborhoods
• Maria Torres-Springer, President, The Charles H. Revson Foundation
• Molly Wasow Park, CEO, NYC Housing Partnership
• Barika Williams, Executive Director, ANHD (Association for Neighborhood & Housing Development)
• Thomas Yu, Executive Director, Asian Americans For Equality

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.  

The Center for an Urban Future’s third annual NYC Economic Mobility Summit was supported by the Citi Foundation. General operating support for the Center for an Urban Future is provided by The Clark Foundation and The Altman Foundation. CUF also receives ongoing support from several other philanthropic funders.