SEC Quarterly Meeting - The Foreclosure Crisis: Opportunities for a New Economy

The Foreclosure Crisis: Opportunities for a New Economy

For our next Social Equity Caucus quarterly meeting, we will be broadening our understanding of the foreclosure crisis to illuminate strategies by which community groups and the public sector can work together to move from reaction to action, seizing the moment to make concrete gains in economic equity for the most burdened communities in the Bay Area.

Our emphasis is on the ways that cross-sector work can restructure the economy; therefore, this meeting will be useful for both community groups working on issues related to economic justice and for city and county electeds, staff, and commissioners from around the Bay. Though we will be sharing specific campaigns and strategies from the East Bay, we invite folks from around the region to attend and to share their work.

Our goal is to increase shared knowledge about strategies and solutions that will not only support our most compromised communities in responding to this crisis, but will also allow community groups and public sector allies to leverage the financial climate to advance economic justice.

This meeting will include plenty of time for sharing and discussion, and we ask that you come prepared to talk about how the economic crisis has impacted the communities in which you work and how your organization’s strategies, approaches, and campaigns have been shaped by and respond to these impacts. We also ask that you come prepared to share strategies for ways that organizations “on the ground” can work with allies in the public and private sectors to move campaigns for economic equity. Joining us to share a case study on the related financial climate and adjacent campaigns in Richmond will be:

• Adam Kruggel, Executive Director of the Contra Costa Interfaith Supporting Community Organization
• Sheryl Lane, Richmond Planning Commissioner and Coordinator of the Richmond Equitable Development Initiative (REDI)
• Patrick Lynch, Director of Housing and Community Development for the City of Richmond

We serve light breakfast and hardy lunch!

If you plan on attending, please RSVP to laurie(at)urbanhabitat(dot)org.