About Connecticut's Affordable Housing Conference
Dates: November 14-16, 2022
Location: Virtual with an optional in-person networking session
Partnership for Strong Communities (PSC) will host Connecticut’s third annual Affordable Housing Conference (CAHC) across November 14, 15, and 16th, 2022. The conference content will continue to be virtual, but this year we will also host an optional late afternoon/evening in person networking session on one of the days.
This year the CAHC’s theme is "Building Stability". The conference will spotlight a wide array of best practices, collaborations, and coordinated advocacy strategies to strengthen housing stability for households and communities across Connecticut. The CAHC works to feature content that builds the public and political will to realize equitable, stable, affordable housing in Connecticut.
Each year, the CAHC features a menu of sessions relevant to affordable housing developers, tenants and tenant advocates, lenders and funders, public housing authorities, municipal and state policy leaders, housing advocates and the general public. We are grateful to our sponsors who help us keep the conference free for all to attend.
Request for Session Proposals
We are seeking proposals from groups/individuals who are interested in providing timely, engaging, thoughtful sessions which address opportunities for collaborative action around addressing affordable housing issues in Connecticut. Example sessions include:
• spotlight on a policy or program which advances housing justice for low-income households;
• telling the story of the range of housing experiences in Connecticut;
• solutions for reducing regulatory barriers to housing production;
• efforts to improve housing conditions/increase access to healthy affordable housing;
• examples of successful targeting of new/existing resources to address the severe shortage of affordable homes in our state;
• the impacts of affordable housing on health, education, economic mobility, etc. for individuals and communities
We will prioritize session proposals that include consideration of racial equity in their presentation. Low-income, Black, Indigenous, and Latinx Connecticut households and communities experience housing instability, and inadequate and unsafe housing conditions at disproportionately high levels. These issues have been exacerbated by the global pandemic, and by the deep racial inequity which pervades our housing, healthcare, education, justice, and economic systems.
We encourage both those who have presented at the CAHC in the past as well as new voices to submit proposals!
