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Housing in California continues to be one of the state’s most pressing challenges, presenting an ever-growing threat to the state’s economic vitality.
Drawing on its mission to advance housing industry knowledge and innovation, on September 6, 2018, the Center for California Real Estate presents its third Real Estate Summit. Featuring leaders from real estate, finance, academia, public policy, and government agencies, the Summit will serve as a catalyst for meaningful solutions to the housing affordability crisis and inform the policy agenda in the year ahead.
9:00 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.
OPENING SESSION (Facebook Livestream)
10 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.
PANEL SESSIONS (PANELS HELD CONCURRENTLY)
Moderator: Joel Singer, CEO, CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS®
Panelists:
Ben Metcalf, Director, California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD)
Dan Dunmoyer, President and CEO, California Building Industry Association
Jennifer Hernandez, Partner, Holland & Knight
Rob Lapsley, President, California Business Roundtable
Peter Lynn, Executive Director, Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA)
Mary Leslie, President, Los Angeles Business Council
Kevin Zwick, CEO, Housing Trust Silicon Valley
Rose Olson, Senior Vice President, Development, Related California
Carolyn Coleman, Executive Director, League of California Cities
Assembly member Brian Maienschein, 77th Assembly District
Setting the agenda for the industry and policy-makers, this panel will:
Reframe challenges to California’s housing supply and provide solutions
Analyze the state’s current homelessness situation
Review key ballot initiatives, such as Costa-Hawkins
Determine the role of the private sector in solving the affordability crisis
Moderator: Carol Galante, I. Donald Terner Distinguished Professor in Affordable Housing and Urban Policy and Faculty Director of the Terner Center for Housing Innovation, UC Berkeley
Panelists:
Vince Bertoni, Director of Planning, City of Los Angeles
Deborah Ruane, Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer, San Diego Housing Commission
William Huang, Director of the Housing Department, City of Pasadena
Colin Parent, Executive Director and General Counsel, Circulate San Diego, and City Councilmember, City of La Mesa
Ted Egan, Chief Economist, City and County of San Francisco
Paavo Monkkonen, Associate Professor of Urban Planning,
UCLA Luskin School of Public Affair
Leslye Corsiglia, Executive Director, Silicon Valley at Home (SV@Home)
Drawing upon the knowledge of seasoned land use and development experts, this panel will:
Explore how policymakers can incentivize and finance housing construction to spur development
Promote transparency and accountability in the permitting process
Roadmap the policy changes required to ease the state’s housing construction backlog
Moderator: Brad Inman, Founder, Inman
Panelists:
Dowell Myers, Professor of Policy, Planning, and Demography, USC Sol Price School of Public Policy
Adhi Nagraj, San Francisco Director, San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR)
Pete Peterson, Dean of the School of Public Policy, Pepperdine University
Joshua Schank, Chief Innovation Officer, Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LA Metro)
Sarah Hunter, Senior Behavioral and Social Scientist, RAND Corporation
Jeff Wilson, Co-Founder, Kasita
Marty Borko, Executive Director, Urban Land Institute, Los Angeles
Featuring a disparate array of thought leaders who will discuss livability trends and demographic patterns with an eye toward ascertaining how Californian’s will live and work in the future, this panel will:
Decode the demographic, technological and economic shifts destined to mold future California communities
Analyze how the concept of place-making can help future communities
Address transportation and urban planning issues designed to make the state more livable
11:45 a.m. – 12:40 p.m. Break
12:40 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Lunch speaker
