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Collaborate. Innovate. Act. Summit 2021 June 2-4 Major Sponsor COLLABORATE. INNOVATE. ACT. SUMMIT 2021 JUNE 2-4 MAJOR SPONSOR The Urban Land Institute is a global, member-driven organization comprising more than 45,000 real estate and urban development professionals dedicated to advancing the Institute’s mission of providing leadership in the responsible use of land and creating and sustaining thriving communities worldwide. ULI’s interdisciplinary membership represents the entire spectrum of the land use and development disciplines in private enterprise and public service — leading property owners, investors, developers, KEYNOTE SPONSOR service firms, planners, public officials, and academics. Established in 1936, the Institute has a presence in the Americas, Europe, and Asia Pacific regions, with members in 82 countries, including 2,200 in the ULI San Francisco (ULI SF) district council (sf. uli.org). ULI San Francisco serves the greater Bay Area with pragmatic land use expertise and education. CONTRIBUTING SPONSORS #ULISF #HOUSINGTHEBAY @ULISF @ULISF @ULISF @ULI San Francisco ULI San Francisco 2 Bryant Street, Suite 300 [email protected] San Francisco, CA 94105 www.sf.uli.org (628) 231-2197 www.uli.org PARTNERS SUPPORTING SPONSORS Alta Housing BRIDGE Housing Cahill Contractors DCI Engineers Eden Housing Holland & Knight TABLE OF CONTENTS About + Conference Logistics ..................................2 Summit Schedule .....................................................3 Session Descriptions ................................................4 Summit Speakers ........................................................6 Housing the Bay Since 2017 .....................................12 Summit Lead-Up Events .............................................13 Sponsors .......................................................................14 Acknowledgements ............................................... 17 In 2017, ULI SF launched Housing the Bay, language and shared understanding, and a multi-year initiative to support the vision through collaboration and cooperation with of a Bay Area with healthy, sustainable, and other organizations and institutions committed affordable housing options for everyone. to this work. Through Housing the Bay we are exploring new The Housing the Bay initiative is practical and solutions to break through housing roadblocks, pragmatic, and aspirational and optimistic. We improve housing affordability, and ensure believe there is a role for all of us to play in lending more people have access to the housing they our expertise, insight, and energy to this effort. need. Guided by our members’ expertise in development and finance, policy and governance, Over the last four years, our members and community engagement and equity, we are partners have co-created nearly two dozen lead- building new possibilities and new solutions – up events, tours, and workshops to break down while remaining conscious of the context that barriers and take steps toward finding lasting has brought us to the present moment. housing solutions for the Bay Area. The people and communities of the Bay Area We are convening our fourth Housing the Bay are at the center of our work. Safe, healthy, Summit from June 2-4, 2021, to reflect on the sustainable, and affordable housing for work we have done so far and shine a light on everyone is essential for our region to continue the proposals for action and steps we can take to thrive into the 21st century. We are working to ensure we have enough homes for everyone to create this reality by advancing a common and to lift up the Bay Area that we know and love. CONFERENCE LOGISTICS The Housing the Bay Summit will be held The entire Summit will be recorded and session virtually this year, due to the Covid-19 pandemic recordings will be available to attendees for 30 and public health concerns. All registered days after the event on the Hubilo site. attendees will receive a link for the Summit on the Hubilo platform via the email address they For technical assistance during the Summit, used for registration. please email [email protected]. This email address will be monitored continually during the Summit attendees will have the opportunity live event. to submit questions to the moderator and panelists, message each other via the chat feature, set up one-on-one meetings, and join small group networking in the lounge rooms. 2 HOUSING THE BAY SUMMIT SUMMIT SCHEDULE Wednesday, June 2: Keynote + Happy Hour 4:00 - 4:10pm Welcome and Opening Remarks 4:10 - 4:40am Keynote: Upside Down Urbanism – Gabriel Metcalf talks about what we can learn from Sydney 4:40 - 5:30pm Networking Happy Hour Thursday, June 3 9:00 - 9:10pm Welcome and Opening Remarks 9:10 - 9:25am Keynote: Denise Pinkston 9:25 - 9:30pm Break 9:30 - 10:20pm Looking Back and Looking Forward: Increasing Affordability Through Finance 10:20 - 10:25pm Housing the Bay: Past, Present, and Future (video) 10:25 - 10:45pm Break 10:45 - 11:40pm The Most Important Housing Policy You Haven’t Heard Of (and Why It Might Change Everything) 11:40 - 11:45pm Closing Remarks 11:45 - 12:15pm Networking in the Lounge Rooms Friday, June 4 9:00 - 9:10pm Welcome and Opening Remarks 9:10 - 9:40am Keynote: Heather McGhee Interviewed by Saul Gonzalez 9:40 - 9:45pm Break 9:45 - 10:35am A More Equitable Path Forward: Wealth Generation Through Homeownership 10:35 - 10:45am Break 10:45 - 11:45am Housing Leadership Forum with US Mayors 11:45 - 11:55am Closing Remarks with Housing the Bay Co-Chairs 12:00 - 12:30pm Networking in the Lounge Rooms HOUSING THE BAY SUMMIT 3 SESSION DESCRIPTIONS WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2, 2021 Welcome & Opening Remarks SPEAKER: Drew Hudacek, Chief Investment Officer, Sares Regis Group of Northern California Keynote: Upside Down Urbanism – Gabriel Metcalf SPEAKERS: Michelle Malanca Frey, talks about what we can learn from Sydney Executive Director, ULI San Francisco (Moderator) After 20 years at the helm of SPUR, Gabriel Metcalf moved to Australia to Gabriel Metcalf, CEO, become the CEO of the Committee for Sydney, which aims to enhance the Committee for Sydney conditions that make Sydney a competitive global city. Situated on a coast and with a harbor of stunning beauty, and facing challenges from climate change, high job growth, and the high cost of housing, there are a lot of parallels between our two regions. Gabriel will share what Sydney is getting right and what it would mean (and if it’s possible) to build our way out of our housing crisis. Happy Hour & Networking in Small Breakout Groups THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 2021 Welcome & Opening Remarks SPEAKER: Michelle Malanca Frey, Executive Director, ULI San Francisco Keynote: Denise Pinkston SPEAKER: Denise Pinkston, Partner, Four years ago, Denise kicked off the first Housing the Bay Summit by laying TMG Partners out the myriad reasons why the Bay Area had a housing shortage, why it was so expensive to build housing here, and what it would take to change this trajectory. With over 30 years of experience in planning, real estate and development, and a personal devotion to improving housing and transportation policy in the Bay Area, Denise has no shortage of knowledge and practical expertise in our industry. This year, she brings us up to date on what we have – and have not – accomplished in housing since 2017 and what lies on the road ahead. 4 HOUSING THE BAY SUMMIT Looking Back & Looking Forward: Increasing SPEAKERS: Leslye Corsiglia, Executive Affordability Through Finance Innovation Director, SV@HOME (Moderator) In recent years, a number of corporations, including several Bay Area tech Jordan Moss, Founder, giants, have joined the public sector in addressing the housing affordability Catalyst Housing Group crisis by setting up funds and moving forward investments strategies to increase the impact of public resources. Many of these funds are aimed at Noni Ramos, CEO, Housing Trust Silicon Valley expanding the impact of the Bay Area’s established affordable housing sector by providing access to new kinds of financing. At the same time, new non- David H. Steinwedell, CEO, profit and for-profit organizations have established innovative housing finance Affordable Central Texas and delivery methods to address the needs of households who fall into the “missing middle;” those who typically make too much for traditional affordable housing, but not enough to pay market rents. This panel will take a look back at finance strategies profiled in previous Housing the Bay Summits and survey their successes and challenges since then, as well as explore new and emerging affordable housing delivery methods that represent the cutting edge in affordable housing finance. Housing the Bay: Past, Present, and Future (video) We asked previous Housing the Bay speakers what’s happened since they joined us and what they think we need to do next to make a difference in our housing crisis. The Most Important Housing Policy You Haven’t SPEAKERS: Carol Galante, Professor and Heard of (and Why it Might Change Everything) Faculty Director, UC Berkeley Terner Center for Housing Every eight years, the State and then regions assign every California city and Innovation (Moderator) county their RHNA numbers, or “fair share” of new housing units to build to meet Jesse Arreguin, President of the needs the housing needs of their residents across the income scale. But the ABAG and Mayor of the City of 2022 – 2030 cycle is different: housing allocations more than doubled from the Berkeley prior goals and includes new enforcement levers. The intent is to unlock solutions Meea Kang, Senior Vice to the housing crisis – however, actually meeting these goals are currently President, Related out of reach at all income levels if cities continue doing business as usual. Tawny Macedo, Senior Policy Analyst, California Join this conversation with a broad array of players to discuss how we can Department of Housing & take action to meet the goals through equitable zoning, planning for fair Community Development housing and anti-displacement, missing-middle housing, conversion of commercial lands, and other strategies. Find out what local jurisdictions, developers, advocates, and the state are going to do to help fulfill the obligations through housing elements and what it means for your work.
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