As vacant city-owned property disappears, funding dries up and units age out of subsidy programs, successive administrations make deals to get small amounts of low-cost housing in return for high-rise, market-rate buildings. And, while construction of new housing should be an important source of living-wage jobs, most “affordable” housing is being built with non-union labor, often in substandard conditions. Is there another solution?   Moderator, Eve Baron.

Invited Speakers:

• Carleton Brown, Developer, Full Spectrum
• Vicki Been, Commissioner/Daniel Hernandez, Deputy, Office of Neighborhood Strategies
• Ismene Speliotis, Mutual Housing Association of New York
• Lavon Chambers, Local 79, Laborers Union
• Barika Williams, policy director, Association for Neighborhood Housing & Development;