| Description | The UW Tacoma School of Urban Studies is hosting a FREE half-day workshop on affordable housing strategies. This event, guided by national housing policy experts, offers an opportunity for housing advocates, developers, and policymakers to engage in roundtable discussions. This workshop aims to identify key policies and strategies that could benefit Pierce County, complementing policies implemented over the past five years. Following the workshop, a brief report summarizing the ideas generated during the discussions will be shared online. WHO SHOULD ATTEND? Community housing advocates, affordable housing developers, city housing and planning staff, housing authority staff, students and faculty with an interest in affordable housing, and any organization or individual interested in the future of housing in the region. Speakers:
Tram Hoang
Bio: Tram Hoang supports the PolicyLink housing team in transforming our nation’s housing system through policy analysis, research and advocacy, narrative change, and building the capacity of our partners in movement spaces. She brings experience working on ballot initiative campaigns, tenant protections, and housing and equitable development issues in roles with non-profit community developers, city planning departments, and policy advocacy organizations. Tram holds a master of urban and regional planning degree from the Humphrey School of Public Affairs, where she was a Charles R. Krusell Fellow in Community Development at the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs. Oksana Mironova
Bio: Oksana is a senior policy analyst with the Community Service Society of New York, where she researches and advocates for housing policies that benefit low-income New Yorkers. Prior to CSS, Oksana worked with organizations across the housing field, including Tenants & Neighbors, the West Side Federation for Senior and Supportive Housing, and Enterprise Community Partners. Her writing has appeared in Arch+, the Journal of International Planning Studies, and Urban Omnibus. She holds a master’s in urban planning from CUNY Hunter and was a 2020-2021 Robert Bosch Foundation Fellow in Berlin. You can read her work at oksana.nyc. |
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