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Keys to Opportunity in the Housing Market: Renting, Owning, and Implications for the Racial Wealth Gap
November 13, 2023 @ 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm EST
Stable and affordable rental housing provides an essential foundation for economic participation and upward mobility. At the same time, homeownership has historically provided a primary pathway to wealth creation in the US. Consequently, the dual aims of affordability and wealth generation can put rental and homeownership policies at odds with each other.
Join us November 13 at 10 am PT/1 pm ET for a research-driven discussion around efforts to increase rental affordability, access to homeownership, and housing stability. Experts will also address how different approaches to these aims will have implications for the ability of housing policy to reduce wealth disparities by race and income.
Speakers & Agenda
1:00-1:05 pm ET
Introduction and welcoming remarks
Jennie Blizzard
Communications Advisor
Fed Communities
Elizabeth Kneebone
Assistant Vice President, Community Development Research
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
1:05-1:45 pm ET
Panel 1: Strategies to address the affordability gap for renters
Peggy Bailey
Vice President for Housing and Income Security
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Moderator
Ingrid Gould Ellen
Paulette Goddard Professor of Urban Policy and Planning, Director for Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy
New York University
Sara Kimberlin
Executive Director and Senior Research Scholar
Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality
1:45-2:25 pm ET
Panel 2: Challenges in increasing access to homeownership and closing the racial wealth gap
Rocio Sanchez-Moyano
Senior Researcher, Community Development
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Moderator
Jung Hyun Choi
Senior Research Associate, Housing Finance Policy Center
Urban Institute
Carolina Reid
I. Donald Terner Distinguished Professor in Affordable Housing and Urban Policy in the Department of City and Regional Planning and Faculty Research Advisor
Terner Center for Housing Innovation at the University of California at Berkeley
2:25-2:30 pm ET
Closing remarks
Beth Mattingly
Assistant Vice President
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Location
Seminar organizers
About the Federal Reserve Community Development Research Seminar Series
Keys to Opportunity in the Housing Market
The Federal Reserve Community Development Research Seminar Series is a forum for exploring the intersection of research, policy, and practice in the community development field. The Series expands access to high-quality research that informs stakeholders who are working to support low- and moderate-income communities and communities of color. Our 2023 theme is Keys to Opportunity in the Housing Market.