Betsy Crum is the Executive Director of the Women’s Institute for Housing and Economic Development. She has nearly 30 years of experience in housing and community development, including affordable housing.
Neil Griffin has 22 years’ experience working for the Glastonbury Housing Authority (GHA). Neil started at the Glastonbury Housing Authority as the Authority’s Controller and was named Executive Director in 2006. The Glastonbury Housing Authority operates 445 low income apartments and vouchers.
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John Kidwell moved with his family to Glastonbury in 1978. He is retired from IBM. He currently serves on the boards of the Naubuc Green, Glastonbury Interfaith Housing, and Hartford East Association of the Conference of United Church of Christ. He also volunteers with United Way of Central and North Eastern Connecticut. Whit Osgood is the Vice Chairman of the Glastonbury Town Council, and a previous member of the town’s Planning and Zoning Commission. He has also been a real estate agent for 14 years.
John Selders is an ordained minister serving in the United Church of Christ, the Organizing Pastor of Amistad United Church of Christ, Hartford, CT and the Associate Chaplain at Trinity College, Hartford, CT.
A Community Conversation Can We House Glastonbury’s Future? The future of housing in Glastonbury and across the state must necessarily reflect changing demographics. These include a growing senior population with an interest in downsizing, millennials looking for more affordable housing options, and a more diverse workforce in need of housing across a continuum of affordability. This session will explore how housing could be shaped in Glastonbury to respond to all of these needs and ensure that Glastonbury is a vibrant place to live and work for years to come. March 30, 2016 from 7-9 pm Riverfront Community Center 300 Welles Street, Glastonbury Sponsored by
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Program Welcome
Denise Weeks, Glastonbury MLK Community Initiative
Introduction
Erin Boggs, Open Communities Alliance
Changing Demographics
Orlando Rodriguez, Demographer, Latino & Puerto Rican Affairs Commission
Can We House Erin Boggs, Open Communities Glastonbury’s Future? Alliance How Did We Get Here?
Professor Jack Dougherty, Trinity College
Available Resources
Commissioner Evonne Klein, Department of Housing
Examples of To-Scale Development
Betsy Crum, Developer, The Women’s Institute
Response Panel
Neil Griffin, Glastonbury Housing Authority John Kidwell, Glastonbury Resident Whit Osgood, Vice Chairman, Glastonbury Town Council John Selders, Amistad UCC Pastor
Erin Boggs is the Executive Director of Open Communities Alliance. She has worked on issues of equity, particularly in the context of housing, for almost 20 years. In recognition of the need for an organization specifically focused on the intersection of inequality and geography, she worked with a group of advocates to form OCA in 2013. Orlando Rodriguez is an Associate Commission Analyst with the Latino and Puerto Rican Affairs Commission of the State of Connecticut. He has been analyzing Connecticut’s socioeconomics since 2002, starting at UConn's Center for Population Research and then also as a Senior Policy Fellow at Connecticut Voices for Children.
Jack Dougherty is a Professor of Education Studies at Trinity College. Jack and his students use web writing and data visualization tools to explore the history of cities, suburbs, and schools in metropolitan Hartford. Currently, Jack and contributors are authoring On The Line: How Schooling, Housing, and Civil Rights Shaped Hartford and its Suburbs, a digital book-in-progress that is freely available at http://OnTheLine.trincoll.edu.
Questions Closing
Denise Weeks, Glastonbury MLK Community Initiative
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Evonne Klein is the Commissioner of the Department of Housing. The Department provides a wide array of funding programs and services aimed at ending homelessness, increasing the supply of affordable housing, and creating new homeownership opportunities for Connecticut residents.