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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Private equity and venture capital-backed companies are buying up homes at a mass scale and renting them out to the very people whom they have priced out of the market. Tech is enabling this emerging class of corporate landlords, allowing them to rapidly scale by automating property management, home flipping, rent setting, and other key aspects of the housing market. So how do we counter this tech-driven financialization of the housing market?

We need policies that will reclaim housing and take it out of the investment game. One such policy has been gaining traction in cities across the Bay Area and across the country: COPA/TOPA, or Community/Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Acts. If passed, these policies could move housing out of the hands of corporations and investors and into the hands of tenants and community members—permanently.

Join us on Thursday, January 19th, 12-1pm PT to learn from residents, housing advocates, and experts on how COPA/TOPA can change the tide against the corporatization of housing.

The webinar is co-hosted by TechEquity Collaborative and SOMOS Mayfair and will be moderated by Marion Wellington, Director of Content of TechEquity. Panelists include:

  • Andrea Portillo, Director of Organizing & Policy at SOMOS Mayfair
  • Tania Jackson, Chief of Staff to DC Councilmember Brianne K. Nadeau
  • Richard Hurlburt, Broker/Attorney at IMPACT Social Justice Real Estate
When:
January 19th
12:00PM - 1:00PM
Where:
Online Event
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