The conference is chaired by Howard Noble, a land broker, whose achievements include representing Forest City when it bought Stapleton, the largest infill project in the country. David Zucker, an urban development consultant, also helped put together the program. Lou Massotti, a nationally known expert on affordable housing and the past director of the Real Estate Center, Irvine, will also be a speaker.
The first panel is titled the "Ghosts of Christmas Future" and will deal with issues that face the Front Range and the impact of not creating a diverse housing stock. Moderator Tony Hernandez of Fannie Mae will describe the seven stumbling blocks to creating a diverse housing stock.
Ann Warhover, president of the Downtown Denver Partnership, will discuss how downtown could be more competitive through housing. Barbara Volpe, president of the Public Education Business Coalition, will discuss education policy as it relates to housing and economic growth.
Walt Coughlin, head of Coughlin & Co., an investment-banking firm, will discuss the complexities of capitalizing affordable housing projects. And Sister Lillian Murphy, president and CEO of Mercy Housing, will talk about the social impact of under-delivering affordably priced-housing.
The second panel is called "Implementing Regional and Cooperative Housing Policy." It will be moderated by developer Susan Powers, principal of Urban Ventures, who will discuss the importance of diversity in housing, neighborhoods and schools in order to sustain the economic growth of the region.
Other speakers on the agenda will include lawyer William C. Jensen of the law firm Moye Giles LLP, who will discuss measures to create a $25 million a year, state, self-sustaining housing trust fund. Hank Baker, SVP of Forest City Stapleton Inc., will describe the concept of creating a master-planned "skeleton" that accepts diverse housing and a mix of commercial and retail uses and densities.
Architect Arlo Braun, principal of Arlo Braun & Associates, will describe how affordable housing can be aesthetically pleasing and how to integrate density and affordability into market rate projects. Finally, Melanie Worley, a Douglas County Commissioner and chair of the Denver Regional Council of Governments, will address how to improve regional cooperation.
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