Thank you to our Sponsors!
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Thank you to our conference Community Partners and Advisory Committee for their support!
California Reinvestment Coalition
Canal Alliance
CLAM of West Marin
Consumer Action
County of Marin
Homeward Bound of Marin
Housing and Economic Rights Advocates (HERA)
Latino Council
Legal Aid of Marin
Marin Asian Advocacy Project
Marin Center for Independent Living
Marin City CDC
Marin City Clinic
Marin City CSD
Marin County Office of Education
Marin Environmental Housing Collaborative
Marin Housing Authority
Marin Interfaith Council
Richmond Neighborhood Housing Services
SparkPoint Marin
YWCA SF & Marin
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Funding for the conference provider by:
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
California State Bar
The conference will commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Fair Housing Act, featuring experts in the fair housing field who will address pressing fair housing concerns affecting Marin and the Bay Area, and offer opportunities to engage in strategies to further fair housing.
Registration Fee: $45 per person (includes catered lunch)
Approval by the State Bar of California is currently pending for 6.25 hours of MCLE credit, including 1.25 hours for Recognition and Elimination of Bias Credit.
California: The Frontline in the War to Integrate America's Cities
CEO, Winston Salem Urban League
Former CEO, Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center
There will be 2 break-out sessions and a closing panel in the afternoon. You can select one panel for session 1 and one panel for session 2 you would like to attend on the registration form. The closing panel is for all attendees.
Session 1 Panels:
Panel 1: For Tenant Rights and Protections: This session will unpack housing-related bills recently passed as well as what is on the horizon, and how they apply locally; and how various organizing groups can work together to effect change.
Panel 2: For Housing Developers, Realtors, Lenders: Sustainable Homeownership: This session will focus on policies that foster inclusive communities and best practices for transparency and responsible borrowing and lending.
Session 2 Panels:
Panel 3: Gentrification and Displacement: This panel will address issues of racial equity and land preservation, how policies and institutions limit mobility and equity-building, and other issues.
Panel 4: Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing: Looking at our local history and how policies affecting access to transportation, education, and affordable housing shaped the segregated living patterns we see today; tools to further fair housing, particularly related to supporting affordable housing, public schools, and transportation policies that will begin to reverse patterns of segregation and lack of access.
Closing Panel:
Panel 5: Strengthening housing advocacy through alliance building: This panel will address how to have difficult conversations about housing in our neighborhoods by debunking myths, stereotypes and misinformation that often lead to fear and exclusion.