Previous Programs and Events at the Furman Center

Land Use and Housing Policy Breakfast Series

The Center sponsors a series of breakfast meetings that bring together government officials, the business community, leaders of non-profit organizations and academic researchers to discuss and debate current controversies over land use and housing in New York City.

Conferences

Each year, the Center hosts or co-hosts a variety of conferences, panels and roundtables to provide an opportunity for members of the academic community to meet and discuss ideas and the latest research with the real estate development and finance community, non-profit organizations devoted to community planning, neighborhood economic development, home-ownership and the provision of low and moderate income housing, and policy makers concerned with land use, economic development, real estate and housing.

Past conferences and roundtables:

May 2, 2008: Transforming Foreclosed Properties into Community Assets
March 12, 2008: A Conversation on Brookings' Blueprint for American Prosperity
February 12, 2007: Housing and America's Future with Jonathan Fanton, President of the MacArthur Foundation
April 24 - 25, 2006: Affordable for Whom? Meeting Diverse Housing Needs in High-Cost Cities
April 21, 2005: VU2005: The Economics of Residential Real Estate
March 7, 2005: Barriers to the Development of Housing in New York City: Balance the Need for Housing Against the Need for Regulation
December 6, 2004: Constitutional Constraints on Local Governments' Exercise of Eminent Domain: Implications of the Supreme Court's Pending Decision in Kelo v. City of New London, CT
November 18, 2004: Planning in the Digital Age

Prior conferences have addressed:

Policies to Promote Affordable Housing
Expanding Home Ownership: Obstacles, Innovations, and Opportunities
Immigrants to New York City: Their Housing and Neighborhoods
The Impact of the Rent Regulation Reform Act
The Future of Rent Regulation
Housing and Community Development in the New Fiscal Environment