Keynote Address

Tony Thurmond
CA Assemblymember, D15

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Event Day Supporting Documents

• Program Agenda
• CA Has A Housing Crisis
• A Tool Kit to Close California's Housing Gap
• SPUR's Agenda for Change
• KCET News & Analysis Article: Affordable Housing Is Now a Middle-Class Crisis in California
• Vital Signs Images by MTC - 2013 Affordability by Income Level and By County
• CA LAO Report, Executive Summary
• 11 solutions to the Bay Area housing crisis | Sacramento Business Times
• Affordable Housing Glossary from the Nonprofit Housing Assn of Northern CA 
• Resource List

Panel I: Measuring the Affordability Gap and Its Impacts

 Danielle Mazzella, Housing Policy Analyst, California Housing Partnership

 Landon R. Williams, Senior Director, Anchoring Communities, San Francisco Foundation

 Matt Regan, Senior VP, Public Policy, Bay Area Council

Panel II: The Relationship between Housing Production and Affordability and The Effects of Displacement

 Karen Chapple, Professor of City & Regional Planning, UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design

 Joe Head, Managing Director, SummerHill Land, SummerHill Homes

 Melinda Coy, Housing Policy Specialist, Housing & Community Development, State of California

Panel III: State, Regional and Local Roles in Addressing Affordability

 Michael Lane, Policy Director, Non-Profit Housing Association of No. CA, Board President for Housing Leadership Council of San Mateo

 Ken Kirkey, Director, Planning, Metropolitan Transportation Commission

 Laurel Prevetti, Town Manager, Town of Los Gatos, former Asst. Planning Director, City of San Jose

Panel IV: The Agenda Moving Forward

 Leslye Corsiglia, SV@Home, Executive Director, former Director of Housing, City of San Jose

 Egon Terplan, Regional Planning Director, SPUR

 Santa Clara County Supervisor Cindy Chavez, former Chair, Valley Transportation Authority