At enterprise, he oversaw the financing of construction of thousands of portable Housing Units in the reader new york metro area. That experience motivated his involvements of politics or serving in the commission, becoming an elected member of the town finance board, setting a budget policy for the city and led to his run for on breast rated he is his run for congress. He now sits on two committees. One of them is the select committee on economic disparity and fairness in growth. Where he led the committee in a whole series of hearings and conversations about what the right strategies are to try to try to tackle the growing disparity in prosperity opportunities in places. We are really excited that he has joined us to talk about what congress has learned. There are going to talk about place and hear from fabulous people who are making really great efforts in places to make a difference for those residents. We are going to try to think about how does the dynamic there relate to what th
Financing of construction of thousands of portable Housing Units in the reader new york metro area. That experience motivated his involvements of politics or serving in the commission, becoming an elected member of the town finance board, setting a budget policy for the city and led to his run for on breast rated he is he now sits on two committees. One of them is the select committee on economic disparity and fairness in growth. Where he led the committee in a whole series of hearings and conversations about what the right strategies are to try to try to tackle the growing disparity in prosperity opportunities in places. We are really excited that he has joined us to talk about what congress has learned. There are going to talk about place and hear from fabulous people who are making really great efforts in places to make a difference for those residents. We are going to try to think about how does the dynamic there relate to what the feds are doing . We tend to spend a loss of our ti
Housekeeping. First, if your friends missed it or you want to rewatch it, it will be posted online at the event page at the same place. You can hide or add captions on the live transcript button in the zoom feature bar at this button. Speaker bios are online. You will be muted throughout the duration of the event but we want to get your engagement. There is a q a box at the bottom. We would love for you to ask questions and well try to filter them into the panel we will be having at the second half of the event. We will also send out a survey because we want to get better at structuring these events. Hope you can complete that. I want to start by framing us and walk us through some data and level set us and get us on the same page in the federal role. We have had a long and winding road of federal support for placebased development over the years. Some more prominent in their design and implementation, some long, some shortterm and a little more challenging or outright negative. We hav
Economic conditions in low income and distressed communities. Also joining the conversation at this urban Institute Event where Community Advocates you talked about the need to invest in Community Advocates who talked about the need to invest in and rehabilitate neighborhoods without writing out longtime residents. To a very complicated set of conversations. I am excited that i get to have a conversation with another person who has dedicated his career to helping improve neighborhoods. Congressman jim himes is in his seventh term as a member of congress from connecticut. He started his career from the finance sector but became really passionate about access to housing for low and moderate income communities. Full disclosure, i am a very proud member of that organization. At enterprise, he oversaw the financing of construction of thousands of portable Housing Units in the reader new york metro area. That experience motivated his involvements of politics or serving in the commission, bec
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