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Annual Conference and Pre-Conference Institutes 2020


2020 Annual Conference and Pre-Conference Institutes October 5th - 9th


This year’s conference focused on the topic: 30 Years of Building Better Futures


THANK YOU!

Thank you our speakers, sponsors, attendees, and volunteers for making our 30th Annual Conference & Institutes an incredible virtual event. We hope you enjoyed the week and look forward to seeing what innovations, opportunities, connections, and more that come from our conference.

The San Diego Housing Federation’s annual Affordable Housing & Community Development Conference event brings together more than 600 developers, builders, architects, lenders, property managers, service providers, elected and agency officials and staff, community and business leaders to share innovative approaches to affordable housing, community, and economic development. This year, the Conference was presented virtually during the week of October 5 – 9, 2020.

Questions or concerns? Please email events@housingsandiego.org.


Keynote Speakers

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Conor Dougherty, The New York Times; author of Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America

Conor Dougherty is an economics and housing reporter at The New York Times, based in San Francisco. He is originally from the Bay Area and grew up in San Francisco and Napa. Dougherty took a circuitous route to journalism, majoring in chemistry at U.C. San Diego and teaching high school math in Berkeley before getting a job as a researcher at the Los Angeles Business Journal in 2000. He made his way up to reporter and worked for the San Diego Union-Tribune and The Wall Street Journal before joining The Times in 2014.

Over a two-decade career, he has covered a range of topics including banking, entertainment, and sports, but has mostly focused on economics and housing. In 2017 Dougherty’s “Cramped and Costly” series won the Deadline Club award for beat reporting. Those stories inspired his first book, Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America, which was reported over a three year period from 2015 to 2018 and will be published by Penguin Press in 2020. Dougherty continues to cover California and the west, and lives in Oakland, Calif., with his wife and two children.

Order your copy of Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America today for a special 30% discount for our SDHF Conference attendees.


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Megan Sandel, MD MPH, Co-Director of the GROW Clinic at Boston Medical Center, Co-Lead Principal Investigator with Children’s HealthWatch and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health.

She is the former pediatric medical director of Boston Healthcare for the Homeless and is a nationally recognized expert on housing and child health. In 1998, she published with other doctors at Boston Medical Center, the DOC4Kids report, a national report on how housing affected child health, the first of its kind, and over the course of her career, Dr. Sandel has written numerous peer-reviewed scientific articles on this subject. In 2001, she became the first medical director of the founding site for medical-legal partnerships, Medical-Legal Partnership-Boston, and from 2007-2016 she served as the Medical Director of the National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership.

She served as Principal Investigator for numerous NIH, HUD, and foundation grants, working with the Boston Public Health Commission and Massachusetts Department of Public Health to improve the health of vulnerable children, particularly with asthma. She has served on national boards, including Enterprise Community Partners, and national advisory committees at the American Academy of Pediatrics and CDC Advisory Committee for Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention.


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Amanda Andere, Chief Executive Officer, Funders Together to End Homelessness

Amanda Misiko Andere has spent over fifteen years working in the nonprofit and public sector as a leader committed to racial and housing justice through advocacy for systemic change. Prior to joining Funders Together to End Homelessness as their CEO, she served as the CEO of Wider Opportunities for Women, a national advocacy organization. Currently, she serves as a board member of the United Philanthropy Forum and Equity in the Center. Amanda is a founding member and on the leadership team for the National Racial Equity Working Group on Homelessness and Housing. She also serves on the Leadership Council for the DC Partnership to End Homelessness. As a former Co-Chair of A Way Home America, Amanda is a co-conspirator in their work to end youth and young adult homelessness rooted in racial equity.


Public Sessions




Take some time to check out our Yoga Studio. Videos will remain available for the rest of the year.


Thank you to our 2020 Sponsors

Title Sponsor
Union Bank

Silver Sponsors
CIT Bank

Bronze Sponsors
LISC San Diego
National Equity Fund
Red Mortgage Capital
RSG, Inc.
San Diego Community Housing Corporation
San Diego Gas & Electric
US Bank

Technology Sponsors
San Diego Housing Commission
US Bank

Mobile App Sponsor
Chase

Keynote Sponsors
Katerra
Mid-City CAN
San Diego Housing Commission

Track Sponsors
Wakeland Housing & Development - Communications and Engagement Track
Bank of America - Emerging Trends Track
San Diego Interfaith Housing Foundation – Design, Development, and Operations Track
San Diego Housing Commission – Housing Finance Track
USA Properties Fund - Policy and Advocacy Track
Corporation for Supportive Housing - Supportive Housing Track

Community Advocate Scholarship Sponsor
Allgire General Contractors, Inc.

Tribute Session to Sue Reynolds
Sun Country Builders

TCAC/CDLAC Session Sponsor
RedStone Equity

Yoga Break Sponsors
California Community Reinvestment Corporation (CCRC)
Gubb and Barshay LLP
The Richman Group Affordable Housing Corporation

Fundamentals of Affordable Housing Institute Sponsor
Yes on Measure A

Resident Services Support Network (RSSN) Institute Sponsor
San Diego PACE

Supportive Housing Learning Network (SHLN) Institute Sponsor
Allgire Foundation

Networking Salon Sponsors
SCS Engineers
WNC

Exhibitor Sponsors
California State Treasurer Office (CHEEF)
Century Housing Corporation
Department of Housing & Community Development
Eden Housing
Merritt Community Capital Corp.
San Diego Habitat for Humanity

Conference Advocate and Partner Sponsor
Atlantis Group Land Use
California Housing Partnership Corporation (CHPC)
California Statewide Communities Development Authority (CSCDA)
Cavignac & Associates
CRP Affordable Housing and Community Development LLC
Keyser Marston Associates, Inc.
MFRG-ICON Construction
M.W. Steele
Orrick
Rodriguez Associates Architects
Studio E Architects
Swinerton

Non-Profit Supporter Sponsors
Abode Communities
Allgire Foundation
City Heights CDC
Compass for Affordable Housing
Federal Home Loan Bank of SF
Housing Development Partners
Jamboree Housing Corporation
La Maestra Foundation
National Housing
Pacific Southwest Community Development Corporation


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Cancellation/Refund Deadline: Friday, October 2nd

Registrants canceling their registration on or before Friday, October 2nd will receive a full refund. Refund requests submitted after the deadline are not guaranteed and will be reviewed on an individual basis for extenuating circumstances. To submit a refund request, please email events@housingsandiego.org.

Substitution Deadline: Friday, October 2nd

Registrants who are no longer able to attend may transfer their ticket to another person. Substitutions will be accepted until Friday, October 2nd. This will ensure that all guests will receive the necessary instructions and links to access the virtual event. You can edit your guest list through the emailed receipt. For questions, please email events@housingsandiego.org.