Upcoming events of interest to anyone focused on fair housing, housing and economic development, etc.
Intermountain Fair Housing Council: Fair Housing Basics and Hot Topics
- April 2, 2024 – Meridian City Hall
- 9:00 AM – 4PM MT 9am – 4pm MDT
IFHC will present fair housing basics and hot topics, along with trends under all protected classes—Equal Access and Bostock, VAWA/FHA Protections for Victims of Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault, Stalking and Violence, and HUD’s New Reasonable Accommodation and Assistance Animal Technical Assistance Tools.
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Intermountain Fair Housing Council Townhall Series: Tenant Advocacy
- April 4, 2024 – Zoom
- 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM MT
We are continuing our Townhall Series with a conversation between IFHC Community Engagement Specialist Sarah Jareczek and Author and Sociologist Leontina Hormel about Mobile Home Parks and tenant advocacy. This conversation will include a discussion about Hormel’s new book, Trailer Park America – Reimagining Working Class Communities. Order or download a copy to join in on the discussion!
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Intermountain Fair Housing Council Homeownership Dream Series: Fair Lending
- April 11, 2024 – Zoom
- 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM MT
This event, the second to last installment of our Homeownership Dream Series, is all about Fair Lending! This webinar will include information about fair housing, fair lending issues to look out for in the home buying process, and how to get help if you experience fair housing issues or need best practice suggestions!
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Idaho Housing and Finance Conference on Housing and Economic Development
- April 22-23, 2024
- Boise Centre
The premier regional conference for those interested and engaged in housing and economic development policy, planning and practices, including industry professionals, planners and policy makers, advocates, economic and community development practitioners,
General registration here
Two days of sessions on current focus areas, and several world-class keynote speakers:
Charles Marohn is the founder and president of Strong Towns. He is a civil engineer and a land use planner with decades of experience. Planetizen named him one of the most 10 influential urbanists of all time. Marohn is the author of Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity and Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town. His latest book, Escaping the Housing Trap: The Strong Towns Response to the Housing Crisis comes out March 26, 2024.
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In what will be another interesting election season, Amy Walter, the national editor of the Cook Political Report and a popular on-air political analyst, will be here to shed light on what to expect in 2024. For more than 25 years, Walter has built a reputation as an accurate, objective, and insightful political analyst with unparalleled access to campaign insiders and decision-makers.
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Andrew Busch is the former 1st Chief Market Intelligence Officer for the US government and economic futurist. Andy provided economic and market briefings to White House, US House, US Senate, the SEC, the Federal Reserve Board and the US Treasury staff on a wide range of issues including interest rates, inflation, China’s influence on trade, and the impact of technology on the economy.
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Gregg Colburn is an Associate Professor in the Runstad Department of Real Estate in the College of Built Environments at the University of Washington. He publishes research on topics related to housing and homelessness and is co-author of the book, Homelessness is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns (University of California Press). His research has been featured in leading media outlets, including The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Economist, Bloomberg, and National Public Radio.
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Intermountain Fair Housing Council Fair Housing Basics: National Origin and Religion
- April 25, 2024 – Zoom
- 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM MT
This online training will discuss the legacy of the Fair Housing Act as we acknowledge the 56th anniversary of its passage, the basics of the Fair Housing Act, including the jurisdictional elements of a fair housing complaint and examples of discriminatory conduct by housing providers, as well as a closer look at the protected classes of Religion and National Origin – two of the original four protected classes in the FHA.
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