Housing Supply & Finance: Catalyzing Community Investment & Policy Reform

Webinar | Wednesday, August 20, 2:00 – 3:45pm PT

Hosted by the Federal Home Loan Bank San Francisco and the Terner Center for Housing Innovation, this webinar focused on increasing housing supply in today’s policy and economic environment. It brought together leaders working to tackle the Western region’s housing affordability crisis and addressed topics such as strengthening pro-housing policies and increasing access to financing.

Welcome
Ben Metcalf, Managing Director, Terner Center for Housing Innovation, UC Berkeley 

Panel 1: Unpacking Housing Policy Reforms in California, Arizona, and Nevada

This panel explored and compared policy changes across California, Arizona, and Nevada and unpacked which policy reforms have already led to meaningful changes and which hold the most promise in increasing housing supply and affordability.

Panelists: 

• Kirin Goff, Executive Director, Arizona Neighborhood Project
• Michael Lane, State Policy Director, SPUR
• Maurice Page, Executive Director, Nevada Housing Coalition
• David A. Garcia, Policy Director, Up for Growth (Moderator)

Remarks
Kelly Gear, Senior Vice President, Chief Strategy Officer, FHLBank San Francisco

Panel 2: Exploring Housing Finance in an Uncertain Economic and Policy Environment

Housing practitioners and professionals discussed current challenges in making projects pencil, as well as how state and federal policy reforms are changing the way they are approaching project financing.  

Panelists:

• Laura Archuleta, President and CEO, Jamboree Housing Corporation
• Jim Heid, UrbanGreen and Craft Development Founder
• Sindy Spivak, West Region Market Executive, Bank of America Merrill Lynch
• Jonathan Fearn, Senior Vice President of Development, Signature Development Group (Moderator)

Closing
Jeremy Empol, Senior Vice President for Public Affairs and Industry Outreach, FHLBank San Francisco