Monday, April 18
9:00am | Welcome | Kim Hunt and Tracy Baim |
9:05am | Review of the Tiny Home Design Competition | Catherine Baker, Kasey White |
9:20am | Statistics on Youth Homelessness | Beth Malik, Chicago Coalition for the Homeless |
9:30am | Youth Voices on Transitional Living: Policy and Practice Implications for Providers of Youth Housing | Casey Holtschneider, Ph.D., LCSW |
9:45am | Presentations from out-of-town projects which provide tiny homes for the homeless
| Moderator: Kelly Saulsberry, Chicago Commission on Human Relations
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11:30am | Working Lunch Youth Voices and Tiny Homes | A moderated discussion with youth about the concept of tiny homes. Including Nicholas Bouyer and Kasey White. Moderators are the co-founders of the SHED Studio, Mike Newman and Rashmi Ramaswamy |
12:30pm | Smart Urban Planning | Marisa Novara, Director of Housing and Community Development, Metropolitan Planning Council, Chicago and Mary Tarullo, Community Organizer – Housing, ONE Northside |
12:45pm | Government Housing Panel | HUD, City, County, State Includes: Ray Willis, HUD Director, Office of Community Planning & Development; William (Bill) Pluta, Director of Office Housing and Coordination Services, Illinois Housing Development Authority; Richard Monocchio, Executive Director, Housing Authority of Cook County; Mary Howard, Chief Resident Services, Chicago Housing Authority Moderator: Kim L. Hunt, Pride Action Tank |
1:30pm | Practicalities: How It Can Work in Chicago | Andy Geer, Enterprise Community Partners; Lydia Stazen Michael, All Chicago; Carlos DeJesus, Managing Director, Housing Department, Heartland Alliance; Katrina Van Valkenburgh, CSH Moderator: Aisha N. Davis, Lambda Legal, Pride Action Tank |
2:15pm | City Zoning and Planning Departments | Gerardo Garcia, Architect and Urban Designer, Chicago Department of Planning and Development; Mike Simmons, Deputy Commissioner of the Department of Planning and Development; and Danielle Meltzer Cassel, Zoning Attorney, Vedder Price Moderator: Carmen Noriega, construction manager, The Resurrection Project |
2:45pm-3:00pm | BREAK | |
3:00pm | Land Bank Discussion | Rob Rose, Executive Director of the Cook County Land Bank |
3:15pm | Youth Homeless Service Providers Discussion | Flora Koppel, Unity Parenting; Jeri Linas, Teen Living Programs; Paul W. Hamann, The Night Ministry; Angelique Miller, AIDS Foundation of Chicago Moderator: Lara Brooks, Chicago Youth Storage Initiative |
4:00pm | Private Funding for Housing and Housing Services in Chicago | Bradford J. White, Associate Director, Alphawood; Deborah E. Bennett, Sr. Program Officer, Polk Bros. Foundation; Heather Smith, the Field Foundation of Illinois Moderator: Debbie Reznick, Sr. Program Officer, Polk Bros. Foundation |
4:45pm | Closing remarks, and planning for Day Two | |
5:00pm | Tour of the model tiny home design competition winner built by Price Construction |
TUESDAY, April 19
9:00am | Welcome | Kim Hunt and Tracy Baim |
9:10am | Bringing Economic Development to Chicago Neighborhoods | Kavita Sharma and Adrianna McKinley of Bootstrap Villages |
9:30am | Presentation on Planned Tiny Home Affordable Housing for Chicago | Eithne McMenamin, MSW, St. Pauls United Church of Christ Jeff Bone from Landon, Bone, Baker |
10:00am | Architects on the Design of Tiny Homes: Discussion | Led by Catherine Baker of Landon, Bone, Baker, with the three architects who won the Tiny Homes Design Competition: Lon Stousland, Terry Howell, and Marty Sandberg. Moderated by Lee Bey. |
10:45am | Breakout Groups | |
11:45am | Final Report Out and Action Steps |