Happy Housers Event This September

Happy Housers, A Quarterly Happy Hour Event

TICKETS NOW 50% OFF! Join us at Dr. Funk in Downtown San Jose. 

Join us for a special Happy Housers Happy Hour, sponsored in partnership with our friends at Equity Forward Anchor Network (EFAN)!

You’re in for a good conversation over drinks with people who care about creating a more inclusive Silicon Valley. It’s a chance to swap ideas, make new connections, and talk about how local campuses, churches, and community institutions could help open doors for more housing.

Come curious, leave connected.

Whether you’re deep in the housing world or just curious about what’s possible, this is your space to meet new people, share ideas, and be inspired.

Drink ticket and light appetizers included with ticket purchase.

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In 1969, a vision for a new community rooted in economic cooperation, mutual care, and self-determination took hold in southwestern Georgia, in resistance to accelerating Black land loss and violent repression of Civil Rights organizing. Drawing on collective land stewardship practices found throughout the world, the New Communities, Inc. land trust was founded to prevent displacement and promote Black economic prosperity through community-owned land. Widely recognized as the first community land trust (CLT) in the U.S, New Communities has since inspired communities across the country to organize CLTs to advance racial, economic and environmental justice, and repair a long history of violence and discriminatory public and private sector policies. 

This LISC Institute webinar will uplift the ongoing significance of New Communities to movements for Black lives, land, and liberation. In conversation with Shirley Sherrod, co-founder of New Communities, CLT leaders from Baltimore, Houston, New York City, and Seattle will reflect on how CLTs can help combat Black land loss and displacement, build community wealth, and strengthen community health and care, and the support needed to scale and sustain this work over multiple generations. 

Moderators 

  • Athena Bernkopf, Project Coordinator, East Harlem El Barrio CLT
  • Julia Duranti-Martínez, Program Officer for Capacity & Research, LISC

Speakers

  • Shirley Sherrod, Co-Founder, New Communities, Inc. and Executive Director, Southwest Georgia Project for Community Education, Inc.
  • Ashley Allen, Executive Director, Houston CLT
  • Carlos Sanchez, Youth Leader, and Meleny Thomas, Development Without Displacement Director, South Baltimore CLT
  • Danise Jones-Dorsey, Board Chair, Northeast Housing Initiative
  • Wyking Garrett, President, Africatown CLT
  • Debra Ack, Board Secretary, and Albert Scott, Board President, East New York CLT
When:
June 29th
11:00AM - 12:30PM
Where:
Online Event
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