Recent research demonstrates that the neighborhood a child is born into is enormously influential in shaping lifetime outcomes related to health, income, and academic achievement. Opening pathways for low-income families to move to high-opportunity communities is a proven means to facilitate upward economic mobility while breaking up concentrated poverty.

This webinar will feature a presentation on the research highlighting the role of neighborhoods in childhood development, followed by a discussion of the implications for federal housing policy and the potential for targeted housing support to expand access to opportunity.

Keynote remarks by:

Sarah Oppenheimer | Executive Director, Opportunity Insights

Panel discussion featuring:

Andrea Gift Allan | Managing Director, Real Estate, Pretium

Andrea Juracek | Director of Fair Housing and Public Housing Revisioning, Enterprise Community Partners

Bryan Samuels | Executive Director, Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago

Owen Minott | Associate Director, Housing and Infrastructure, BPC