Affordable housing – in Nashville and across the nation – is the topic of a daylong conference Thursday, March 13, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College Wyatt Center.
Speakers include Nashville Mayor Karl Dean and George McCarthy, the Ford Foundation‘s program officer in asset building and economic development.
“This conference is designed to connect local housing developers, policymakers and stakeholders to national housing experts in order to discuss the future of affordable housing and how this affects the Nashville community,” Susan Saegert, one of the conference’s organizers who will be a professor of human and organizational development at Vanderbilt starting Fall 2008, said.
The conference, “Affordable Housing: What’s Next Nationally and in Nashville?” will include panel discussions with local and national experts on new directions for housing low- and moderate-income families nationally and in Nashville and organizing communities to support affordable housing.
There is a $25 registration fee and seating is limited. Email Laurel Lunn laurel.m.lunn@vanderbilt.edu to inquire about attendance.
For a full conference agenda, visit http://peabody.vanderbilt.edu/Microsites/Center/Center_for_Community_Studies/Affordable_Housing_Conference.xml.
The event is organized by Vanderbilt’s Peabody College of education and human development, the Department of Human and Organizational Development and the Center for Community Studies.
For more information about Peabody, visit: http://peabody.vanderbilt.edu.
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