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Centering the interconnectedness of community, equity, and the built environment, the National Building Museum convenes diverse thought leaders for critical conversations on the current challenges and opportunities in the affordable housing crisis. The summit explores how collaborative action can reimagine and build a collective, thriving future. Recognizing that neither policy, design, nor advocacy alone can meaningfully address the underlying inequity of housing in America, the summit centers around the question: What do communities and neighborhoods lose when housing is unaffordable?

Summit Headline Speakers

Summit Topics

Displacement, Wealth Disparities, and Equitable Development  

Affordable Housing and the Equitable Energy Transition 

Intergenerational Communities and Alternative Housing

Summit Speakers

Convening thought leaders in policy, academia, and public and private sectors, the summit aims to inspire shared action towards building equitable and affordable communities.

Andrew Brumfield - Cities & Urban Design Leader, Design Director, Gensler

Andrew Foley - Associate Director of Development, Jonathon Rose Companies

Anita Cozart - Director, DC Office of Planning

April De Simone - Managing Principal, The Practice of Democracy, NOMA, Associate AIA 

Calvin Gladney - CEO, Smart Growth America

Catherine Gall - Executive Director, Chaire ETI of IAE Paris, 1 Panthéon Sorbonne 

Daniel Parolek - Architect, Author, Missing Middle Housing; Founding Principal, Opticos Design

Fonna Forman, PhD - Professor of Political Theory, University of California San Diego; Founding Director; UCSD Center on Global Justice

Jennifer Leimaile Ho - Commissioner, Minnesota Housing

Jennifer Molinsky - Project Director, Housing: an Aging Society Program, Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies

Julian Gross - Principal, Law Office of Julian Gross

Laurie Schoeman - Senior Climate Advisor, Executive Office of the President

Linda Toth - Associate | Climate & Sustainability, Arup (LEED BD+C AP, SITES AP, Fitwell Ambassador) 

Marc Norman - Larry & Klara Silverstein Chair and Associate Dean, New York University, Schack Institute of Real Estate 

Pallavi Mantha, LEED AP WELL AP - Associate | Carbon & Sustainability, Arup (LEED AP, WELL AP)

Robert McCartney - Host “Think Regionally” Podcast

Rodney Harrell, PhD - Vice President, Family, Home and Community, AARP

Shane Philips - Housing Initiative Manager, University of California Los Angeles Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies

Sara C. Bronin - Chair, Advisory Council on Historic Preservation

Senthil Sakaran - Interim Director, Amazon Housing Equity Fund

Shaun Donovan - CEO & President of Enterprise Community Partners; former U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

Teddy Cruz - Professor of Public Culture and Urbanization, Department of Visual Arts, University of California San Diego

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