DELIVERING SOLUTIONS FOR CALIFORNIA'S TOP HOUSING CHALLENGES

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Moderator: Joel Singer, CEO, CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS®

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Panelists: 

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• 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

• Assemblymember Brian Maienschein, 77th Assembly District
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Setting the agenda for the industry and policy-makers, this panel will: 

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• 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

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FIXING HOUSING SUPPLY AT REGIONAL AND LOCAL LEVELS

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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

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Panelists: 

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• 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:   

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• 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

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MAPPING THE FUTURE OF CALIFORNIA: WHERE AND HOW WILL CALIFORNIANS LIVE?

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Moderator: Brad Inman, Founder, Inman

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Panelists: 

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• 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:

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• 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

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11:45 a.m. – 12:40 p.m. Break 

12:40 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Lunch speaker