| 8:30 am | Registration, Breakfast, & Tiny Home Model Tours |
| 9:00 am | Introductions Tracy Baim & Kim Hunt Welcome Remarks Grace B. Hou, Deputy Governor for Health and Human Services |
| 9:20 am | Housing First: What Housing Can Mean for Those with Lived Experience Moderated by Doug Schenkelberg Panelists: Natalie Morehead, Joseph Peery, Chris Shuttlesworth, Zarria Alexander |
| 10:25 am | Impact of Tiny Homes on Community Affordability and Development Across the US Special guests from Austin and Dallas, Texas, Seattle, and the Bay Area Moderated by Ald. Maria Hadden Panelists: Inti Gonzalez, Tracee Henneke, Ralph Neis, Jamie Zachary |
| 11:50 pm | Lunch & Tiny Home Model Tours |
| 12:45 pm | Christine Haley, State of Illinois Chief Homelessness Officer and Nneka Onwuzurike, First Deputy of Business and Neighborhood Development for the City of Chicago Mayor’s Office |
| 1:00 pm | Land Use: Availability, Policy and Intervention Moderated by Angela D. Brooks, FAICP Panelists: Lisette Castañeda, Ciere Boatright, Taylor Kiely, Sam Young |
| 2:00 pm | Funding Tiny Homes: Products and Partners Moderated by Emily Krisciunas Panelists: Bryan Esenberg, Sol Flores, Kristin Faust |
| 2:55 pm | Designing and Operating Tiny Homes with People in Mind Moderated by Graham Grady Panelists: Nadia Underhill, Rory Rubin, Sally Hindman, Tim Swanson, DeWayne Elliott |
| 3:50 pm | Supporting and Advocating for Innovative New Housing Moderated by Neena Hemmady Panelists: Dominique Chew, Carolyn K. Ross, Sendy Liseth Soto, Steven Vance, Jahkil Jackson |
| 4:45 pm | Closing Speaker Andrew Harrison |
If you are taking public transportation, the venue is a short walk from the Illinois Medical District blue line stop. If you are driving, there is limited metered street parking and several parking structures on surrounding blocks (see campus parking map below – lots B2 and C4 are your closest options).
