National Forum on the Human Right to Housing

Registration is now open for the National Forum on the Human Right to Housing, June 7-8, 2011 in Washington, D.C.

The forum offers an opportunity to learn more about the exciting work going on across the country and around the world in advocacy for the right to housing and to participate in planning for the next steps we can take together.
 

Workshops will discuss a wide range of timely topics of interest to members of this forum, from foreclosure response, to the rights and needs of homeless and unstably housed children to an education, to housing rights of domestic violence survivors, to human rights approaches to budget analysis. It will conclude with a Congressional briefing on the right to housing, and an opportunity for advocates to meet with their representatives.

Confirmed speakers include:  

• Peter Edelman, Professor of Law and Director of the Center on Poverty, Inequality, and Public Policy, Georgetown University School of Law
• Barbara Ehrenreich, best-selling author of Nickel & Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
• Pam Fessler, poverty & philanthropy correspondent, National Public Radio 
• Bryan Green, General Deputy Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing at HUD
• Jonathan Harwitz, Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy & Programs at HUD   
• Gail Laster, Deputy Chief Counsel for the House Financial Services Committee
• Barbara Poppe, Executive Director, U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness
• And more!

The forum is co-sponsored by the American Bar Association Commission on Homelessness & Poverty. We are grateful for the support of the U.S. Human Rights Fund; Au Bon Pain; Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP; and Jones Day.

For more information, and to register, see www.nlchp.org/2011forum.cfm.