Date & time:
Thursday, August 16, 2018 - 4:00 am UTC
This is an informational webinar, open to individuals and organizations that are interested in learning more about the Opportunity Starts at Home campaign. Attendees will learn about the campaign's progress, short- and long-term plans, policy advocacy goals, and ways to get involved.
Speakers include:
- Diane Yentel, President & CEO, National Low Income Housing Coalition
- Mike Koprowski, National Campaign Director, Opportunity Starts at Home
- Dan Hawkins, Senior VP, National Association of Community Health Centers
- Greg Payne, Director, Maine Affordable Housing Coalition
Opportunity Starts at Home is a long-term, multi-sector campaign to meet the housing needs of the nation’s low-income people. The research continues to mount that housing is inextricably linked to nearly every measure of having a quality life – education, health care, civil rights, economic mobility, poverty reduction, economic productivity and growth, social unity, homeless prevention, veterans care, and more.
As such, various sectors are recognizing that affordable homes are inextricably linked to their own priorities and concerns. In the face of an unprecedented housing affordability crisis, along with the undeniable, cross-cutting realities of the research and the imminent threats to federal housing assistance, powerful new constituencies are possible in ways that they haven’t been before.
The campaign is powered by a Steering Committee representing a wide range of leading national organizations: National Low Income Housing Coalition, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Children’s HealthWatch, Make Room, National Alliance to End Homelessness, Catholic Charities USA, Children’s Defense Fund, Community Catalyst, Food Research and Action Center, NAACP, National Alliance on Mental Illness, National Association of Community Health Centers, National Education Association, and UnidosUS.
To learn more, visit the campaign's website at www.opportunityhome.org
Event location:
Webinar