2015 Fair Lending and Vital Communities Conference Series

November 13, 2015

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.

 

• 26^th Annual Fair Lending and Vital Communities Conference
• November 13, 2015
• Cleveland State University, Levin College of Urban Affairs
• 5 Hours CLEs & CEUs Pending

AGENDA AND SPEAKERS 

7:45 – 8:30      Registration and Continental Breakfast 

8:30                 Welcome

• Kathy Hexter, Director for Community Planning and Development, Levin College of Urban Affairs, Cleveland State University
• Charles Bromley, Founder and Director, Ohio Fair Lending Coalition       

8:45 – 9:30       County Housing Plan: Overview of progress and research

                     Moderator:  Cheryl Stephens, Director of Acquisitions, Dispositions And Development, Cuyahoga Land Bank

• Ken Surratt, Deputy Director, Housing and Community Development, Cuyahoga County
• Q & A and Audience Response

9:30 – 9:45         Housing Trends

• Frank Ford, Senior Policy Advisor, Thriving Communities Institute

Ongoing Municipal Challenges, Opportunities, and Innovative Responses

9:45 – 10:45    City of Cleveland

                        Moderator: Frank Ford, Thriving Communities Institute

• Mike Cosgrove, Acting Director, Cleveland Community Development Department
• Ron O’Leary, Director, Cleveland Building and Housing Department
• Erika Anthony, Senior Director of Advocacy, Policy and Research, Cleveland Neighborhood Progress
• Anthony Brancatelli, Council Member, City of Cleveland
• Q & A and Audience Response

10:45 – 11:00            Break

11:00 – 12:00    First Ring Suburbs

                          Moderator: Sally Martin, Housing Manager, South Euclid

• Benjamin Faller, Executive Director, Home Repair Resource Center
• Ian Andrews, Executive Director, Lakewood Alive
• Michael Love, City of South Euclid/One South Euclid
• Marty Castelletti, City of Euclid/EDCOR
• Nick Fedor, Executive Director, Shaker Heights Development Corporation
• Q & A and Audience Response

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 5^TH 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

• Lou Tisler, Executive Director, NHS of Greater Cleveland 

• Rob Curry, Executive Director, Cleveland Housing Network
• Diana M. Cyganovich, Executive Director, Cogswell Hall

2:45 - 3:45      Fair Lending Update

                        Moderator: Paul Bellamy, Esq., The Dann Law Firm;

Additional speakers TBA

• Leah Mullen, Staff Attorney/Senior Compliance Director, Toledo Fair Housing  
• Thenessa Savitsky, Research Analysis, Ohio Fair Lending Coalition 
• Jamie Weisberg, Senior Campaign Analyst, Association for Neighborhood and Housing Development
  
• Darlene Norwood English, Director of Education and Outreach, Housing Research & Advocacy Center
  
• Q & A and Audience Response 

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  

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