The UCLA Distinguished Speaker Series in Affordable Housing brings leading industry experts and scholars to UCLA to engage students in the critical issues related to urban and rural housing markets, and housing policy and sustainability, particularly the housing needs and outcomes of low-income and workforce households. Leading business practitioners and policymakers discuss the current trends in affordable housing development and preservation in Southern California. Lecture topics include: affordable housing finance and development in California in the wake of the dissolution of redevelopment agencies, community economic development, transit-oriented development, homelessness and permanent supportive housing, green building and approaches to creating more sustainable neighborhoods in Los Angeles.
Lectures are sponsored by the Howard and Irene Levine Program in Housing and Social Responsibility at the UCLA Ziman Center for Real Estate.
Heather Averick
Director of Supportive Housing
1/26/23, , 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Online Event
Fireside Chat Video: Supportive Housing 101 - Designing Permanent Solutions for Unhoused Communities
Nick Chitwood
Executive Vice President, Capital Markets
6/2/22, 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
B117, Gold Hall, UCLA Anderson
The Reality of Executing a Team Vision and Facing Challenges Together
Deborah La Franchi (BA '87, FEMBA '00)
Founder & CEO
2/24/22, 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Online Event
Tapping and Engaging the Private Sector: Using Private Equity in the Battle Against Poverty
Affordable Housing Development: Career Pathways, Challenges, and Trends
Perica Bell, Managing Director, Head of Originations, Community Development Finance, MUFG Union Bank, N.A.
Kecia Boulware, Regional Vice President, Development, The Michael’s Organization
Denice Wint, Director of Real Estate Development, EAH Housing
5/6/21, 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Online Event
Fireside Chat Video: Trends and Challenges in Affordable Housing
Making an Affordable Housing Development Deal Work
Reagan Maechling (BA '00, MURP '05), VP, Acquisitions Enterprise Housing Credit Investments, LLC
Matt Mason, Director of Real Estate Development, West Hollywood Community Housing Corporation
Ann Sewill, General Manager, Los Angeles Housing Department (LAHD)
11/18/20, 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Online Event
Fireside Chat Video: What Makes Affordable Housing Development Work?
Tim Soule (’03)
Vice President
6/25/20, 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Online Event
Fireside Chat Video: Affordable Housing and Development
Leah Goodridge
Supervising Attorney
MFY Legal Services
Housing Rights Project
UCLA Law JD '09
2/10/16, 12:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Room 1430, UCLA Law Building
Eviction Prevention as an Approach to Reducing Homelessness: The Case of New York City
(This lecture is co-sponsored by the Critical Race Studies Program at the UCLA School of Law.)
Sarah Garland
Senior Vice President
PNC Bank
4/18/14, 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Room 2357, 2nd Floor, UCLA Law Building
Jeffrey Schaffer
VP & Market Leader
Southern California
Enterprise Community Partners, Inc.
3/21/14, 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Room 2357, 2nd Floor, UCLA Law Building
Dean Matsubayashi
Executive Director
Little Tokyo Service Center
2/21/14, 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Room 1457, UCLA Law Building
