A Decade of Housing Vulnerability:
Lessons from Financial Crisis to Coronavirus Matters
Wednesday, October 13, 2021
Remote-Virtual / In-Person
4:00 PM
SYMPOSIUM CO-CHAIRS
Ralph F. Boyd, Jr., NHPF Trustee, Chair; President & Chief Executive Officer, SOME (So Others Might Eat)
Sarah E. Feinberg, NHPF Trustee, Founder, Feinberg Strategies, LLC
Cherie Santos-Wuest, Managing Partner, Celadon Venture Advisors
CONGRESSIONAL AWARD HONOREES
NHPF 2021 Affordable Housing Trailblazer Awards
United States Representative
Nydia M. Velázquez (D-NY)
NHPF 2021 Affordable Housing Trailblazer Awards
United States Representative
Ann Wagner (R-MO)
NHPF 2021 Affordable Housing Industry Leader Award
Delegate to US House of Representatives, DC
Eleanor Holmes Norton
PRESENTATION & KEYNOTE SPEAKER
A Decade Of Affordable Housing Vulnerability & Beyond
Andrew Jakabovics
Vice-President, Policy Development & research, Enterprise Community Partners, Inc.
Keynote Speaker
Kimberly L. Jones
Social Activist and Author
CONVERSATION: MAYORS OF A MAJOR MUNICIPALITY
Moderator
Laura DeMaria, MPA
Executive Director, National Association for County Community and Economic Development
Speaker
Mayor Justin Elicker
City of New Haven, Connecticut
Speaker
Mayor Francis X. Suarez
City of Miami, Florida
Speaker
Mayor Sylvester Turner
City of Houston, Texas
CONVERSATION: POLICY INFLUENCERS & ACADEMICS
Speaker
Ingrid Gould Ellen
Paulette Goddard Professor of Urban Policy & Planning, NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service & Faculty Director of the NYU Furman Center
Speaker
Neil McCullagh
Executive Director, Carroll School of Management’s Joseph E. Corcoran Center for Real Estate & Urban Action; Lecturer at Boston College
Speaker
Jenny Schuetz
Senior Fellow, Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program
CONVERSATION: HOUSING AGENCY PARTNERS
Speaker
Marisa Button
Director, Multifamily Programs for Florida Housing Finance Corporation
Speaker
J. Michael Hawkins, PhD, AICP
Managing Director, Community Outreach for Virginia Housing (VH)
THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS
We are grateful to our sponsors and attendees. In this most difficult of years, you have chosen to embrace NHPF’s mission of providing pathways that residents can follow up and out of poverty. We hope you will join us as we continue to foster strong relationships essential to the success of our valuable work.











