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A home is more than just a dwelling. It’s the security a family feels having a roof over their heads that can’t be taken away. It’s the collective memories of a family gathering place.
It can also be the equity that provides generational wealth.
But increasingly, in the US, owning a home is available only to the upper third of our citizens. Renting is being pushed as the go-to housing preference, even though it offers no equity and often little protections. What housing is available for the poor is in terrible condition. And after years of pandemic economic losses, families are finding themselves on the edge of foreclosure and homelessness is climbing.
House flippers, gentrification, profiteering off the poor, regulations that prevent new housing going up, and disappearing rights are all part of the problem. What are the solutions?
In this Zoom of Our Own Conversation, we heard from a national expert on housing inequity, learned about solutions like Community Land Trusts and one county in New Jersey that claims to have eradicated homelessness, and engaged in a compelling and honest dialogue about how to fix the problem of inequitable housing in America.
ABOUT THE PANELISTS:
Dev Goetschius is the founding executive director of Housing Land Trust of Sonoma County, an organization that has been in partnership with cities to produce and preserve permanently affordable, owner-occupied homes. She has over 30 years of experience in management, strategic planning, program design and fundraising for nonprofit organizations and is a partner at Burlington Associates in Community Development, the national consulting firm specializing in the development and evaluation of affordable housing policies and community land trust programs; co-founder of the CA CLT Network and the Bay Are Community Land Trust Consortium; founding board member and past president of the National Community Land Trust Network; and a founding member on the Board of Directors at Generation Housing and at the Center for Community Land Trust Innovation.
Julia Orlando, CRC, Ed.M, MA, DRCC, is the Director of the Bergen County Housing, Health and Human Services Center. The mission of this nationally recognized and award winning Center is to end homelessness in Bergen County. Julia has over 30 years of clinical and managerial experience developing and providing social services to individuals with co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders, and others experiencing chronic homelessness, prisoner reentry or involved in jail diversion programs. She is an advisor to the NJ Coalition to End Homelessness, an adjunct professor at the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College, and has provided consultation and training for a wide variety of non-profit organizations privately through Julia Orlando Consulting.
Rasheedah Phillips leads PolicyLink’s national advocacy to support the growing tenants’ rights, housing, and land use movements in partnership with grassroots partners, movement leaders, industry, and government leaders—and has led various housing policy campaigns that resulted in significant legislative changes, including a right to counsel for tenants in Philadelphia, and the Renter’s Access Act, one of the strongest laws in the nation to address blanket ban eviction polices having a disparate impact on renters of color. Rasheedah is the recipient of the 2017 National Housing Law Project Housing Justice Award, the 2017 City & State Pennsylvania 40 Under 40 Rising Star Award, the 2018 Temple University Black Law Student Association Alumni Award, and more.
Marybeth Gardam, Chair of the Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom's Women, Money & Democracy committee and an AEOO Advisory Board member, will moderate the conversation.
ABOUT THE SERIES:
Our Zoom of Own Series brings women (and men!) together to construct a fuller knowledge and set of values now omitted from the mainstream “free market.” Together, we're flipping the script on a racist, sexist economy. Our economics is lived in real complex communities. Our goal is to model how women can talk together and learn together about traditionally male territory still new to most women.