The Affordable City: May 16, 2008, 7 pm
Venue: SFU Harbour Centre, 515 West Hastings Street, Vancouver
Admission to public lecture is free; reservations are required.
Email cstudies@sfu.ca or call 778-782.5100.

There has been a gradual shift in municipal housing policy in the United States over the past decade. A growing number of cities are supporting innovative models of homeownership that permanently protect the public’s investment and permanently preserve the affordability of these homes, one resale after another.  Community land trusts have been the principal beneficiary of this policy shift, along with limited equity cooperatives and deed-restricted houses and condominiums.

Speaker: John Emmeus Davis is a partner and co-founder of Burlington Associates in Community Development LLC, a national consulting cooperative specializing in the development of organizations, policies, and projects promoting permanently affordable, owner-occupied housing.  Community land trusts have been a programmatic focus since the founding of Burlington Associates in 1993. The firm’s six partners have helped to start or to support over 80 CLTs throughout the United States.

Davis served for ten years as Burlington, Vermont’s Housing Director and, later, as coordinator for the city’s federally-designated Enterprise Community.  Prior to employment with the City of Burlington, Davis worked for the Institute for Community Economics in Cincinnati and Boston and for Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Services in Ithaca, New York.

Davis has taught housing policy and neighborhood planning at Tufts University, New Hampshire College, the University of Vermont, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is presently a visiting fellow at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy in Cambridge, Massachusetts and a member of the governing board of the National CLT Academy, where he serves as the academic dean. His publications include The Community Land Trust Handbook (1984), Contested Ground: Collective Action and the Urban Neighborhood (1991), The Affordable City: Toward a Third Sector Housing Policy (1994), and Permanently Affordable Homeownership: Does the Community Land Trust Deliver on Its Promises? (2003). His most recent book, Shared Equity Homeownership: The Changing Landscape of Resale-restricted, Owner-occupied Housing, waspublished by theNational Housing Institute in 2006. He is a graduate of Vanderbilt University and Cornell University, holding an M.S. and Ph.D. from the latter.

www.burlingtonassociates.com

Co-sponsored by SFU's City Program and the Centre for Sustainable Community Development.