Housing Is Summit 2024: Session Recordings & Materials

Recordings

Welcome to the 2024 Summit

Sunia Zaterman, Executive Director, CLPHA
Abra Lyons-Warren, Director of Cross-Sector Initiatives, CLPHA
Jeffery K. Patterson, CLPHA Board President and Chief Executive Officer, Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority

We Envision... Celebrating 10 Years of Housing Is

This year the Housing Is Initiative is celebrating our tenth anniversary. To mark this milestone, we are releasing We Envision…, a comprehensive report reflecting on the Initiative’s accomplishments and looking towards the future of cross-sector partnerships that improve life outcomes. In this session, representatives from PHAs and partners highlighted in the report will discuss their innovative programs and collaborations that expand health, education, and digital equity opportunities for low-income individuals. We will also hand out copies of We Envision… and invite all attendees to share similar “ripples of hope” from their communities.

Plenary: Centering Cross-Sector Partnershipsfor Public Housing Sustainability

Over the last three decades, the public housing program has been redefined. For most of its history public housing had been framed by stakeholders as simply a physical real estate portfolio, a collection of buildings and units. In 1992, a shift occurred. A national commission acknowledged the “public failure to recognize the needs of the individual and families living in distressed housing.” The definition of the program now encompasses the families that call public housing home. Today, this means that to fully serve public housing residents and rectify decades of disinvestment, health and education services must be completely integrated into public housing communities. As thought leaders begin work on a 10-year roadmap for the future of public housing sustainability they will champion cross-sectorapproaches that center public housing as the locus for services that can help residents improve their life outcomes. Hear how communities are developing strategies to incorporate cross-sector approaches into recapitalizing public housing for the future.

Sunia Zaterman, Executive Director, CLPHA
Richard J. Monocchio, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office of Public and Indian Housing, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Mary-Margret Lemons, President, Fort Worth Housing Solutions
Ivory Mathews, CEO, Home Forward

Plenary: Addressing Early Childhood Homelessness

The first three years of life are the most critical for a child’s development. This is also the age where children are more likely to experience homelessness, a stressor causing lifelong impacts which disproportionately affect families of color. Safe, stable housing is essential to mitigating these negative effects. This plenary will discuss communication and policy solutions for collaborative approaches between the homelessness/housing and early childhood development sectors to support upstream, cross-sector approaches.

Barbara Duffield, Executive Director, SchoolHouse Connection
Katie Kelly, Director, Communications and Community Initiatives, Pritzker Children’s Initiative
Rexanah Wyse Morrissette, Esq., Director, Executive Office and Strategic Initiatives, Children’s Defense Fund

Plenary: Accelerating Systemic Housing and Medicaid Partnerships

For the last ten years, the Housing Is Initiative has promoted the deep value of health and housing cross-sector partnerships to address the social determinants of health, health related social needs, and improve health overall for low-income residents and communities. Today, we are finally seeing the systemic adoption of these crucial partnerships within the Medicaid and Medicare systems. This panel will share progress to date on bridging Medicaid systems with housers and other partners to address health-related social needs.

Kelly Cronin, Deputy Administrator for Innovation and Partnership, Administration for Community Living, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Rhonda Hauff, Chief Executive Officer, Yakima Neighborhood Health Services
Lowel Krueger, Executive Director, Yakima Housing Authority
Jack Rollins, Director of Federal Policy, National Association of Medicaid Directors

Partnerships Breakouts

Strategic Alignment in Public Housing: Leveraging HCV Waitlist Openings and Large-Scale Outreach for Homeless Populations

This session will explore effective strategies for aligning Housing Choice Voucher waitlist openings with large outreach events targeting individuals experiencing sheltered and unsheltered homelessness, such as the annual Point-in-Time Count. Panelists will emphasize the need for collaborative efforts among Continuums of Care, counties, municipalities, and public housing authorities to streamline policy alignment, enhance the inflow process, and sustain housing for those with a history of homelessness.

Alicia Alvarez, Housing Specialist, Co-Lead, Nourish NJ, New Jersey Department of Community Affairs Statewide Advisory Board of Persons with Lived Experience of Homelessness
Renee Koubiadis, Senior Policy Advisor, New Jersey Department of Community Affairs
Nieisha Law, Administrator, Office of Housing Assistance, New Jersey Department of Community Affairs
Kasey Vienckowski, Team Lead, Homeless Planning Team, Monarch Housing Associates

Improving Digital Literacy Outcomes Through Strategic Partnerships

Digital inclusion is now a fundamental component of housing stability and narrowing the digital divide is more important than ever. This session will feature two different partnerships as they share best practices and lessons learned from their programs seeking to achieve digital equity within low income communities. First, Columbus Metropolitain Housing Authority and the Columbus Metropolitan Library will present on their place-based digital navigation program designed to improve residents’ digital literacy and connect residents to affordable devices and in-home broadband. The second partnership highlighted is between the Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh, The Jerome Bettis Bus Stops Here Foundation, and STEM Coding Lab on the (W.O.W.) CyberBus, a mobile classroom equipped with computers and internet access that allows for remote instruction for students and parents in HACP communities and the greater Pittsburgh area.

Casey Mindlin, Executive Director, STEM Coding Lab
Sonja Nelson, MBA, VP of Resident Initiatives, Columbus Metropolitan Housing Authority
Benjamin Reid, Public Service Director, Columbus Metropolitan Library
Michelle Sandidge, Chief Community Affairs Officer, Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh
Bethany Vietmeier, Executive Director, Jerome Bettis Bus Stops Here Foundation

Health Breakout

Building Stronger Communities: Exploring Partnerships Between Medicaid and PHAs in Washington State

This session will explore partnerships between Medicaid and PHAs in Washington State. Washington’s Aging and Long-Term Supports Administration and Health Care Authority work to administer various Medicaid-reimbursable pre-tenancy and tenancy-sustaining support services. This session will highlight partnerships generated between the Spokane and Seattle Housing Authorities and Washington’s Medicaid programs and discuss how PHAs can offer support services, either independently or in collaboration with local provider networks. Conversations will center on how these collaborations address health inequities and drive systemic change, illustrating successful strategies for integrating housing with health services to enhance community well-being and support.

Jessica Chow, Health and Housing Program Manager, Seattle Housing Authority
Whittney Joy Howard, Housing Integration Unit Manager, Home and Community Services Aging and Long-Term Support Administration, Washington State Department of Social and Health Services
Pamela Parr, Executive Director, Spokane Housing
Rachael Steward, Deputy Director of Housing Operations, Seattle Housing Authority

Education Breakout

The Chronic Absence Epidemic: Data, Frameworks, PHA Interventions

Chronic absence has nearly doubled since the pandemic. It is especially high in economically challenged communities. By meeting low-income students at home, PHAs are uniquely positioned to address this attendance crisis and advance a more equitable postpandemic learning recovery. The Campaign for Grade-Level Reading and Attendance Works will discuss their work that aims to reduce chronic absence and the opportunities for PHA-led partnerships that work towards this goal. Attendance Works will share the latest data and outline a framework for partnerships with schools, while two CLPHA member PHAs in the Campaign’s 2023 PHA Honor Roll network will discuss their current attendance strategies and outcomes.

Maria Casey, Associate Director of Staff Development, Attendance Works
Doreen Eley, Resident Empowerment Assistant Director, Fresno Housing Authority
Gary McCurty, Community Builder, Tacoma Housing Authority
Robert McAfee, Sr., Community Builder, Tacoma Housing Authority
Erica Vaughan, Consultant, Campaign for Grade-Level Reading

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