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UConn Law's Black Law Students Association invites you to its spring symposium

Affordable & Fair Housing: Reality or Another American Dream?

When: February 22, 2008, 8:15am - 4:15pm
Where: Starr Hall Second Floor

Sponsored by the Thomas F. Gallivan, Jr. Chair in Real Property Law

In the United States, housing often is associated with political, economic, and social prosperity. Where we live determines many aspects of our lives, such as safety, access to community resources and services, as well as the adequacy and proficiency of our children's primary and secondary education. In spite of various public and private initiatives to combat our disparate housing problems, socioeconomic status is still the most salient barrier to remedying housing issues in the Unites States today.

This year's symposium will address the benefits and detriments that public and private housing initiatives have had on underprivileged communities in America.

Schedule

8:15am - 8:45am	Registration & Continental Breakfast
8:45am - 9:00am	Opening Remarks Jeremy Paul, Dean and Thomas F. Gallivan, Jr. Professor of Real Property Law at the University of Connecticut School of Law Download the Audio View the Video
9:00am - 10:15am	The 1968 Fair Housing Act 40Years Later: How Far Have We Really Come? Moderator: The Honorable E. Curtissa R. Cofield '78, Connecticut Superior Court David J. Harris, Managing Director, Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice, Harvard Law School Cynthia Watts Elder '88, Counsel, The Phoenix Companies, Inc. Erin Kemple, Executive Director, Connecticut Fair Housing Center Jon Bauer, Clinical Professor of Law at the University of Connecticut School of Law Stephen Ross, Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Connecticut Download the Audio View the Video
10:15am - 10:25am	Break
10:25am - 11:40am	The Federal Hope VI Program: Who Are the True Beneficiaries? Moderator: The Honorable Eric Coleman '77, Connecticut State Senator (D-Bloomfield) Richard Tenenbaum, Director of the Housing Task Force, Connecticut Legal Services Henry Fernandez, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress; Principal, Fernandez Advisors, LLC Patrick A. T. Lee, Principal and Executive Vice President of Trinity Financial Julie B. Fagan, Field Office Director, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Download the Audio View the Video
12:00pm - 12:30pm	Lunch
12:30pm - 1:15pm	Key Note Address Alan E. Green '74, Executive Director of Hartford Housing Authority Download the Audio
1:15pm - 2:30pm	The Right of Return & Community Displacement: Where Are They Now? Moderator: The Honorable Vanessa L. Bryant '78, U.S. District Court of Connecticut Shelley White, Legal Director of New Haven Legal Assistance Lance Freeman, Associate Professor of Urban Planning at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation Wesley Horton, '70, Principal, Horton, Shields & Knox, P.C. William Breetz, President and CEO, Connecticut Urban Legal Initiative, Inc. at the University of Connecticut School of Law Download the Audio View the Video
2:30pm - 2:45pm	Break
2:45pm - 4:00pm	The Subprime Mortgage Market: An Affordable Housing Solution or the Antithesis of American Prosperity? Moderator: The Honorable Juliett L. Crawford '83, Connecticut Superior Court, New Haven Housing Session Cassandra Jones Havard, Associate Professor of Law at the University of Baltimore School of Law Janis Bowdler, Senior Housing Policy Analyst, National Council of La Raza Bob Kantor, Director, Community Business Center of Connecticut, Fannie Mae Stephen Ross, Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Connecticut Patricia McCoy, George J. & Helen M. England Professor of Law at the University of Connecticut School of Law Download the Audio View the Video
4:00pm - 4:15pm	Closing Remarks Constance Belton Green '72, Chief Diversity Officer and Executive Assistant to the President, Eastern Connecticut State University

Admission is FREE. Continental breakfast and lunch provided to those who RSVP to housing.symposium@law.uconn.edu or 860-570-5204.

If you require a reasonable accommodation for a disability, please contact Jane Thierfeld Brown at (860) 570-5131 at least two weeks in advance.