Panel: Fixing the Housing Crisis

Stephen Barton** (Committee for Safe & Affordable Homes) Steve Barton is the co-chair of the Committee for Safe & Affordable Homes, established to support passage of a windfall profits tax on residential landlords on the November 2016 ballot in Berkeley, California. He previously served as Berkeley’s Housing Director, and Deputy Director of theBerkeley Rent Stabilization Program. He is the author of numerous articles on housing policy and economics, as well as on the history of the Georgist and Socialist movements and has a Ph.D. in City & Regional Planning from the University of California, Berkeley. Patrick Kennedy (Panoramic Interests) Owner of Panoramic Interests, a development firm that has been building housing, live-work space, and commercial property in the Bay Area since 1990. The firm has focused on dense, mixed-use, mixed-income, infill developments, typically financed with private funds. Alexandra Lafci (New Story Charity) Alexandria Lafci is the Head of Operations and Co-Founder of New Story—an innovative nonprofit that transforms slums into sustainable communities around the world. Alexandria has a decade of work, academic, and volunteer experience in domestic and international development. Alex Lofton (Landed, Inc.) Alex Lofton is the co-founder of Landed, a San Francisco based startup helping people access homeownership with down payment support. Lofton believes co-investment models in housing both drastically improve how our cities work and how the average person builds wealth. —

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