USC Lusk Center for Real Estate With The Way Forward Housing Coalition
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Housing’s Contribution to Economic Development: Re-framing the Narrative
Unleashing the Housing Sector’s Potential to Drive Economic Growth and Social Equity in Emerging Markets and Developing Countries
Sponsored by Fivepoint Holdings, LLC
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Program — Wednesday, September 7, 2022
The Opportunity Cost of the Status Quo on Housing
7:00am - 8:00am (EST) • Registration and Breakfast
8:00am - 8:30am (EST) • Welcome + The Opportunity Cost of the Status Quo on Housing
Richard K. Green, Director, Lusk Center for Real Estate, University of Southern California
8:30am - 9:15am (EST) • Keynote: Urbanization, Housing Construction, and the Development of National Capital Stocks
Vernon Henderson, School Professor of Economic Geography, London School of Economics
9:15am - 9:35am (EST) • Break
9:35am - 10:45am (EST) • The Elephant in the Room: Housing is an Important Economic Sector
- Moderator: Judy Baker, Lead Economist, Social, Urban, Rural, and Resilience Global Practice, World Bank
- Deniz Igan, Head of Macroeconomic Analysis, Monetary and Economic Department, Bank for International Settlements
- Jonathan Malagon, Colombia's Minister of Housing and Sanitation 2018-2022 – Visiting Fellow, JFK School of Government, Harvard University
- Shamika Ravi, Nonresident Senior Fellow - Governance Studies, Brookings Institution
10:45am - 11:05am (EST) • The Real Estate Revolution
Emile Haddad, Founder and Chairman Emeritus, FivePoint Holdings, LLC
11:05am - 11:40am (EST) • Wrap Up
Maisy Wong, James T. Riady Associate Professor of Real Estate, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
11:40am - 1:00pm (EST) • Lunch – Hyatt Regency Bethesda
Program — Thursday, September 8, 2022
Building an Equitable, Efficient Housing Sector
7:00am - 8:00am (EST) • Registration and Breakfast
8:00am - 8:05am (EST) • Welcome
Patrick McAllister, Senior Advisor, Terwilliger Center for Innovation in Shelter, Habitat for Humanity International
8:05am - 9:15am (EST) • How to Build a Fair and Efficient Housing Market
- Moderator: Siqi Zheng, STL Champion Professor of Urban and Real Estate Sustainability, Faculty Director, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Real Estate
- Muhammad Mustapha Gambo, Manager: Policy, Research and Partnerships, Shelter Afrique
- Michael Manville, Chair, Urban Planning Faculty Executive Committee; Associate Professor of Urban Planning, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, University of California, Los Angeles
- Jarjisu (Jay) Sa-aadu, Chester A. Phillips Professor of Business Finance and Real Estate, University of Iowa
9:15am - 10:40am (EST) • Scaling Housing Production Requires Finance
- Moderator: Marja Hoek-Smit, Director/Founder, International Housing Finance Program, Zell/Lurie Real Estate Center, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
- Loïc Chiquier, Chief Technical Advisor, Finance, Competitiveness & Innovation, World Bank
- Kyung-Hwan Kim, Professor of Economics, Sogang University
- Johnstone Oltetia, CEO & MD, Kenya Mortgage Refinancing Co
- Naeem Razwani, Sr. Director, Global Financial Inclusion and Capital Markets, Terwilliger Center for Innovation in Shelter, Habitat for Humanity International
10:40am - 10:50am (EST) • Break
10:50am - 12:00pm (EST) • Measuring Housing’s Impact Requires Data
- Moderator: Arthur Acolin, Runstad Department of Real Estate, College of Built Environments, University of Washington
- Kecia Rust, Executive Director and Founder, Centre for Affordable Housing Finance Africa
- Nancy Lozano-Gracia, Senior Economist in the Urban, Rural and Social Global Practice, World Bank
- Mick Silver, Independent Advisor
12:00pm - 12:30pm (EST) • Wrap Up
Stephen Malpezzi, Emeritus Professor in the James A. Graaskamp Center for Real Estate, Wisconsin School of Business, University of Wisconsin-Madison
12:30pm (EST) • Closing Remarks
12:35pm (EST) • Lunch