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Join us on Friday, March 26 from 12:00 - 2:00 p.m. Central Daylight (1:00 - 3:00 p.m. Eastern) to learn about barriers and opportunities to coordinating housing, transportation, and workforce policies. MPC and the Center for Housing Policy hosted listening sessions in Minneapolis-St. Paul and Atlanta in March and April 2009 to convene stakeholders including from local and state government, the workforce sector, housing and transportation experts, and advocacy groups to discuss positive examples of coordination across silos, as well as challenges to working effective housing-transportation coordination.
The Live at the Forum event will feature Emily Salomon, Center for Housing Policy, Robin Snyderman, Metropolitan Planning Council, Susan Adams, Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership, Inc. and Caren Dewar, ULI Minnesota, who will share on-the-ground experiences and key policy opportunities related to improving housing-transportation-workforce coordination.
1. Hear about the initiative: The two-part event begins at 12:00 p.m. Central (1:00 p.m. Eastern) with a 30-minute conference call, where major findings from the report and initiative will be presented. The call-in number is (712) 432-1001 and the access code is 452746624#.
2. Interact with the presenters: Immediately following the call, from 12:30 - 2:00 p.m. Central (1:30 to 3:00 p.m. Eastern), Emily Salomon, Robin Snyderman, Susan Adams and Caren Dewar will be online to answer your questions. All questions should be posted to this thread, and you are welcome to post at any time before or during the event. Questions will be answered on a first-come, first-served basis until time runs out, so post early to be sure yours is addressed.
Go to the Forum. Note: You will need to refresh your browser periodically during the live event to view new questions and responses.
MPC has released Improving Housing-Transportation Linkages: Learning from listening sessions in Atlanta and Minneapolis-St. Paul, a short write-up of the listening sessions, which highlights key barriers and local best practices surfaced at the events. This piece also points to recent policy advances and legislative opportunities to improve housing-transportation coordination.
The Center for Housing Policy has published two issue briefs based on the outcomes of the listening sessions:
How Transportation Reform Could Increase the Availability of Housing Affordable to Families with a Mix of Incomes Near Public Transit, Job Centers, and Other Essential Destinations, explains how reauthorization of the federal transportation bill can incent the improved coordination of transportation, housing and land use policy to ensure that families across a range of incomes have access to affordable housing as well as efficient, accessible transportation options.
Regional Coordination in Atlanta Metro and in the Twin Cities: Understanding the Challenges and Opportunities of Coordinating Housing, Transportation and Workforce Policies, draws from the discussions held during the listening sessions and the information shared about the experience of coordinating land-use, transportation, and workforce policy in the Atlanta and the Twin Cities regions.