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January 29, 2021
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM ET

1.5 CM Credits


Registration Link:
 https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/8580768375665206028

Join us for a two-part series, sponsored by the Housing and Community Development Division, exploring three vulnerable communities adapting to and surviving the threats of climate change and urban development.  Each session will present planning best practices.

Sally Russell Cox, with the State of Alaska, will share her work with four communities and the reports she co-authored on a relocation framework addressing the unmet infrastructure needs of Alaska Native villages due to erosion, flooding, and permafrost thaw.

Pat Forbes, with the State of Louisiana, will describe the Isle de Jean Charles project. This marsh island has lost 98% of its land due to sea level rise and coastal land loss, which is forcing the resettlement of the community that inhabited that land for generations.

Speakers will demonstrate how citizen participation is critical to relocation and cultural preservation, and describe how inter-agency collaboration is critical to ensure housing affordability and infrastructure planning.

This is the first of a two-part series looking at resilience in vulnerable communities. Part two of our series, will look at the Gullah-Geechee community and their resilience in the face of urban development encroachment.

1.5 CM Credits 
In July, the Housing & Community Development Division committed to centering conversations on race and equity in housing and community development. As part of that ongoing work, we are excited to welcome Kanika Khanna, who will be providing content and leadership as our Division’s Research Fellow over the coming months.
 
Kanika Khanna is a doctoral student at Cornell University’s Department of Government. Broadly, her research is centered around race and ethnic politics, housing policy, and inequality in the United States. Her ongoing work focuses on the politics of racial segregation and integration as they relate to fair and affordable housing. Prior to enrolling at Cornell, she was a project manager for a low-income housing tax credit consulting firm, working with nonprofits in New York City developing affordable and supportive housing. She has a BA from the City University of New York and an MPP from Brown University.
 
In her own words:
 
I am grateful for the opportunity to join the HCD Division as its new Research Fellow on Race, Equity and Housing. In this role, I am committed to centering critiques, assessments, practices, and crucial conversations addressing racial equity in housing and community development. We in HCD will collectively do so by centering the needs and voices of Black Americans and all communities of color, collectively reckoning with historical and systemic practices that have perpetuated racial injustices, and envisioning what equitable housing looks like as well as how it can be achieved. While this work is constant and unfinished, I believe it is essential. I look forward to providing HCD members with resources to inform continued conversations and action towards a more racially just future.


May 5–7, 2021 | Online

Join in the NPC21 Immersive Digital Experience


https://planning.org/conference/
 

Anticipate and Adapt

Join the planning community after a year like no other in the most immersive, energizing and empowering NPC yet! Share experiences, address challenges, and get ideas designed for today’s needs.

You’ll come out the other side with a whole new perspective.

February 12, 2021
1:00-2:30 ET

1.5 CM Credits

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The Housing and Community Development Division is excited to host a screening of Episode III in the documentary series, the Shame of Chicago - The Color Tax. Premiering last year at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, The Color Tax tells the story of how a system of predatory home contract sales during the 1950s and 1960s plundered enormous sums of wealth from the pockets of black families seeking homeownership. But unlike what happened in other cities, Chicago’s families fought back in one of city’s most heart-wrenching and perilous campaigns for racial and economic justice. Reverend William Barber, co-director of the National Poor People’s Campaign, A National Call for Moral Revival writes, “The Color Tax paints with vivid clarity perhaps America's most striking example of systemic racism.”
 
After the screening there will be a moderated discussion around fair housing, exclusionary housing policies and the impacts on minority communities nationwide.

Moderator 

Angela Brooks, AICP, is the Director of the Illinois Program for the Corporation of Supportive Housing. Brooks is a native of Seattle and a graduate of Jackson State University, where she received her Bachelor of Arts in Urban Studies, and the University of New Orleans, where she received a Master of Urban and Regional Planning. An active member of APA since graduate school, Brooks has held numerous leadership positions including current At-Large Board Member of the APA, past chair of the Housing and Community Development Division, vice president of programs for the Planning and the Black Community Division, chair of the Diversity Task Force, and co-chair of the Housing Policy Guide. She has also served on the City of Seattle Planning Commission and Martin Luther King County Boundary Review Board.

Speakers
 
Bruce Orenstein is currently producing the documentary series Shame of Chicago: The Segregation of an American City. He also runs the Telling Our Stories Student Working Group at the Cook Center and teaches documentary production at the Arts of the Moving Image Program.

Orenstein founded and directed the Chicago Video Project, one of the nation’s first studios dedicated to producing organizing-driven
videos for grassroots social change organizations. His television credits include the Emmy-award winning WTTW documentary No Place to Live, and the nationally broadcast PBS documentaries, The Democratic Promise: The Life and Legacy of Saul Alinsky and American Idealist: The Story of Sargent Shriver. Prior to becoming a filmmaker, Orenstein led direct-action community organizations in low-income communities in Chicago and Seattle.

Daniel Lauber, AICP, has been handling the most challenging land-use cases for decades. The skills developed in over 25 years of winning zoning approval for such LULUs (Locally Unwanted Land Uses) as group homes, sober homes, halfway houses, and recovery communities have translated well to winning zoning approval for commercial uses adjacent to residential areas and multi-family housing in communities known for their resistance.

Mr. Lauber's background as a city planner enables him to better understand and anticipate neighborhood objections -- and devise ways to prevent neighborhood opposition from arising.  Mr. Lauber also practices Fair Housing law, especially for sober homes, group homes, halfway houses, and recovery communities for people with disabilities. He has frequently served as a legal and planning consultant to jurisdictions to bring their zoning for group homes into compliance with the nation's Fair Housing Act.

1.5 CM Credits 
Do you know an APA Housing & Community Development Division member that would be great for other HCD division members to know about?
 
We want to hear about members’ passions, projects, and programs for a new feature: the HCD Member Spotlight. Check out the inaugural feature with Daniel Lauber, AICP.
 
Let us know who we should talk to next! Tell us a little about them, and why we should talk to them. Self-nominations are also welcome!

  Please Note:
  Presentations are available for 1.5 CM credits for live viewing only.

 

Date

Title

Sponsor

CM #

02.12 The Shame of Chicago: The Color Tax Screening Housing & Community Development Division N/A
01.29 Resilience in Vulnerable Communities: When Climate Change Forces Relocation Housing & Community Development Division N/A
01.22 Harnessing the Power of Community Feedback with a Qualitative Methodology Massachusetts Chapter N/A
01.15 Public Art Life Cycle Part 2: Maintenance to Mayhem Urban Design & Preservation Division 9203436
Join Sarah Rosen Wartell, president of the Urban Institute, for a special installment in Urban’s conversation series, Evidence to Action, to launch Urban’s Racial Equity Analytics Lab (REAL).The Urban Institute’s Racial Equity Analytics Lab equips equity-focused changemakers with data and analyses to design and advance race-conscious policies that remedy structural racism and to hold governments and institutions accountable for choices that perpetuate oppressive systems.
 
Monday, January 25, 2021 4:30 PM to 5:30 PM Eastern Standard Time Virtual Event
 
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