Closing Session
Talk or Act? Drawing from the flip chart sheets from each breakout session, participants worked together to develop items to incorporate into an Action Agenda by adding ideas from the eight sessions and filtering them through a consensus process.
The input from the breakout sessions and the closing session will be transcribed and edited into a Regional Action Agenda for Housing. We will send out an e-mail to conference participants with a draft for review and also to notify participants when the Action agenda has been posted to this website.
At the closing session, Gordon Walker summarized what we heard throughout the day, based on the reports from the breakout sessions and the prioritization on those ideas at the closing session.
Summary from the Closing Session:
State and local governments should encourage innovation in approaches to housing, or at least allow them to occur. Policy changes in zoning and incentives are needed to allow and encourage new approaches. Some of the ideas presented or coming out of this conference include:
- Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs)
- Co-housing
- Homesharing
- Community Land Trust
Regional approaches are needed, since housing needs and solutions cannot stop at jurisdictional boundaries.
Education and advocacy are essential, to reach elected and appointed officials, developers, non-profit organizations, and consumers.
Greater affordability needs to be created for both home ownership and rental.
Both public and private resources need to be mobilized, coordinated and sustainable to effectively address the issues.
Enhanced coordination is needed among the “doers,” those who are actively working in housing in some way, already.
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