REGISTER: Improving Housing for Native American Housing Communities

Native Americans, whether living on or off tribal lands, experience disproportionately higher rates of substandard housing and homelessness and face significantly lower levels of homeownership than other populations. This FREE webinar, scheduled for 12 p.m. MDT on August 26, will explore federal policy recommendations and highlight innovative, Native-led solutions across the West to address affordable housing challenges and enhance the quality of life for Native American communities.

Speakers: 

• Rudy Soto,  Executive Director, National American Indian Housing Council
• Dave Castillo, CEO, Native Community Capital
• Jody Cahoon Perez, Executive Director, Salish and Kootenai Housing Authority
• Paul Lumley, Chief Advancement Officer, Native American Youth and Family Center

Register here. 

BRAND West Webinar 1: Rethinking Rental Policy

The need for rental housing reform is urgent. A staggering 22.6 million renters in the U.S. spend more than 30 percent of their income on rent and utilities and with a housing shortage of at least 4 million units, affordable options are slipping out of reach for many more. 

As part of Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham’s WGA Chair initiative, Building Resilient and Affordable New Developments in the West (BRAND West), WGA convened national housing experts to discuss strategies for addressing these growing challenges.    

For this webinar, WGA was joined by Benjamin Preis, the Director of the National Housing Crisis Task Force and a Senior Research Fellow at the Nowak Metro Finance Lab within Drexel University's Lindy Institute for Urban Innovation; Cheryl Cohen, the Housing Division Administrator at the Montana Department of Commerce and the Executive Director of the Montana Board of Housing; Megan Yonke, the Senior Housing Policy Advisor for the Office of Colorado Governor Jared Polis; and Robert Henson, a Senior Housing Policy Specialist at the National Council of State Housing Agencies.