The Ohio Fair Lending and Vital Communities Coalition, established in 1989, has held annual conferences for 25 years focusing on critical policy issues facing local communities, presenting data and expert panels outlining problems, options and possible solutions.
In 2015, the Coalition formed a partnership with CSU’s Levin College of Urban Affairs, and reformatted the conference series to include major Forums and more informal Brown Bag lunch programs. This format was designed to facilitate in-depth discussion to identify emerging issues, which will be incorporated in the November full-day conference.
November 13, 2015 Conference, 7:45 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Core Cuyahoga: What’s Next? Where will we be in 10 years?
Last year at our fall conference, a panel of public officials and community development experts put forward an agenda for change for the first 100 days of the new county administration.
At this year’s November conference our first speaker, Ken Surratt, Deputy Director of Housing and Community Development will discuss rough outlines of the plan. Speakers on three subsequent panels--on the First Suburbs, the City of Cleveland and Affordable Housing-- will clarify current community needs and discuss some of the existing and proposed programming designed to address those needs. A final afternoon panel will focus on fair lending issues.
Our Keynote lunchtime speaker is Michigan Congressman Dan Kildee. Now in his second term in Congress, Kildee previously was co-founder and president of The Center for Community Progress, a national non-profit organization, where he served as one of the nation’s leading voices on urban land reform and revitalization. He founded Michigan’s first land bank – the Genesee County Land Bank –which has been responsible for over $100 million in redevelopment in the city of Flint. The Genesee County Land Bank has served as a model for almost 100 other land banks across the nation, including Cleveland’s Land Bank.
AGENDA AND SPEAKERS
7:45 – 8:30 Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:30 Welcome
8:45 – 9:30 County Housing Plan: Overview of progress and research
Moderator: Cheryl Stephens, Director of Acquisitions, Dispositions And Development, Cuyahoga Land Bank
9:30 – 9:45 Housing Trends
Ongoing Municipal Challenges, Opportunities, and Innovative Responses
9:45 – 10:45 City of Cleveland
Moderator: Frank Ford, Thriving Communities Institute
10:45 – 11:00 Break
11:00 – 12:00 First Ring Suburbs
Moderator: Sally Martin, Housing Manager, South Euclid
12:00 – 1:30 Lunch
Introduction and remarks: Jim Rokakis, Vice President, Western Reserve Land Conservancy; Director, Thriving Communities Institute
Keynote Speaker: Representative Dan Kildee, U. S. Congress, Michigan, D-MI 5TH District
1:30 – 1:40 Break
1:40 – 2:45 Affordable Housing: Ongoing needs and community response
Moderator: Philip Star, J.D., Executive in Residence, Levin College of Urban Affairs, Cleveland State University
2:45 - 3:45 Fair Lending Update
Moderator: Paul Bellamy, Esq., The Dann Law Firm;
Additional speakers TBA
3:45 Wrap-up
4:00 Adjourn
When
Friday, November 13, 2015
Ohio Fair Lending and Vital Communities Conference
8:00 – 3:30 p.m.
Where
Atrium
1717 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio 44115