Innovation and Solutions in Housing Technology

Cazeira

Join us in a 90 minute panel discussing how we can work together to bridge the gap between technology and underserved communities.

Historically, technology has excluded and exploited low income communities (especially of color), creating a justifiable distrust in technology. Our panel will highlight both startups and community based organizations and focus on how they can both leverage technology and effect tangible change within underserved communities.During this session, we’re going to have a discussion with the goal of coming up with a set of recommendations to make tech more inclusive and accessible through the lens of housing innovations. Our goal at the end is share these recommendations with the people we identify that need to be called in in order to make tech more accessible. Learn more about what we do at <a href="https://www.cazeira.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Cazeira here</a>Get to know our panelists:

Del Seymour (he/his), Founder, <a href="https://www.codetenderloin.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Code Tenderloin</a>A veteran and compassionate neighbor, Del Seymour has been a member of the Tenderloin community for the past 30 years. He is a leader in the neighborhood, working closely with Glide Memorial Church, St. Antony’s, and Swords to Plowshares. He is also co-chair of San Francisco's Local Homeless Coordinating Board and has an appointed position with the St.Francis TL HIP Board. This whole endeavor began eight years ago when Del founded Tenderloin Walking Tours in order to “present the Tenderloin in a favorable setting.” In 2015, he founded Code Tenderloin to address the economic inequality he saw in his beloved neighborhood.*Del is MC'ing this panel

Cynthia Nagendra (she/hers), Deputy Director of Planning and Strategy, <a href="https://hsh.sfgov.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">HSH</a>, City of San FranciscoCynthia Nagendra, Deputy Director of Planning and Strategy, was recently appointed by San Francisco Mayor London Breed to the executive leadership team of San Francisco’s Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing. She brings over 15 years of experience in designing homeless response systems and programs. She has focused her career on effectuating systems change at all levels of government using outcomes-based analysis and program design, with the goal of preventing and ending homelessness and advancing housing justice. She has worked on homelessness policy, planning, data-driven program design and evaluation, advocacy, developing cross-sector partnerships, and research in dozens of communities across the country.Most recently, Cynthia was the founding Executive Director of the Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative (BHHI), a research and policy center at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) focused on homelessness, housing, and public health, where she built an organization of multi-disciplinary experts to provide research and equitable policy recommendations to strengthen the public sector’s response to the most critical issues facing unhoused people. Prior to leading BHHI, she was the Director of the Center for Capacity Building at the National Alliance to End Homelessness (NAEH), a leading national policy and advocacy organization. At NAEH, Cynthia worked closely with federal policy makers and local community leaders from across the country to design evidence-based policies and interventions to more effectively respond to homelessness. She designed and delivered technical assistance and capacity building to dozens of communities to educate policymakers, practitioners and thought-leaders on outcomes-driven system design, data and performance measurement, and program practices. She began her career in San Francisco providing direct services to people experiencing homelessness as a Program Manager at St. Anthony Foundation, a direct services organization and later, as a staff attorney at HomeBase, a HUD TA provider. She earned a J.D. from Brooklyn Law School, where she worked on immigration, criminal justice re-entry, and women’s rights issues and a B.A. from Vassar College, where she majored in English.

Atticus LeBlanc, Founder &amp; CEO,<a href="https://www.padsplit.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"> Padsplit</a>Atticus is the founder and CEO of PadSplit, the country’s largest coliving marketplace designed specifically for the workforce. Founded in 2017, PadSplit is structured as a Public Benefit Corporation with a mission to help solve the affordable housing crisis, one room at a time. Through its innovative shared-housing model, PadSplit aligns incentives between cities, nonprofits, and property owners to spur cost-effective housing creation without public subsidy, all while providing safe and affordable housing for working-class individuals with a median income of $25K. By using affordable housing as a means for greater financial independence, PadSplit’s members are able to save more, improve their credit score and purchase their own vehicles and homes, all dramatically improving their lives. PadSplit currently operates more than 4,000 affordable units across 10 markets with an additional pipeline of almost 5,000 units, and another $330M in committed development capital.Before founding PadSplit, Atticus served as an affordable housing developer and contractor, co-founding Stryant Investments and Stryant Construction. As a recognized thought leader on housing solutions, he has presented at MIT, UC Berkeley, the US Chamber of Commerce Foundation, and multiple other conferences and universities. He was the co-chair of ULI’s UrbanPlan Education Initiative, co-chaired the Design For Affordability Task Force in 2018, and serves in multiple civic and volunteer capacities. Atticus graduated from Yale University with a BA in Architecture, and currently lives in Decatur, GA with his wife, their 4 boys, 2 dogs, and lots of chickens.

Jennifer Friedenbach (she, hers), Executive Director of <a href="https://www.cohsf.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Coalition on Homelessness</a>Jennifer is currently the Executive Director of the Coalition on Homelessness, San Francisco. She has worked for the Coalition for 27 years, as Executive Director, as organizing director, substance abuse and mental health work group coordinator and fundraiser. Previous to coming to San Francisco, Jennifer was Director of the Hunger and Homeless Action Coalition of San Mateo County. Ms. Friedenbach has a long history of community organizing, and has worked on a range of poverty-related issues including welfare rights, housing, homeless prevention, health care, disability, and human and civil rights. During her tenure, she has achieved significant victories alongside homeless people and community members including crafting Prop C Our City Our Home a tax on corporations that pays for homeless housing, treatment, shelter and prevention for thousands of San Franciscans, the creation of a local housing subsidy serving hundreds of homeless families, the major expansion of prevention efforts resulting in the halting of displacement of more than a 1,000 households, expansion of substance abuse treatment resulting in decreased overdoses and shorter waits, spearheaded numerous legislative reforms protecting the rights of homeless people, and garnered public investments in programs that have saved countless lives.

Izzy Jackson (she/hers), Founder, Dwell City SolutionsIzzy Jackson graduated from Temple University in 2013 with a Bachelor’s in Business Administration, double majoring in International Business and Legal Studies and minoring in Spanish. She has worked in risk management in the healthcare industry for over 7 years, and was also a landlord/ investor in West Philadelphia for more than 6 years. She decided to leave her full-time job in in January 2019 to disrupt the real estate industry with solutions to help landlords rent to tenants with confidence. She is now pursuing her MBA with Temple University, wile working full time for one of the top tech companies in the world. Izzy spends her spare time helping future entrepreneurs at Springside Chestnut Hill Academy develop their innovations, and volunteering at Epiphany Fellowship Church and Fulphil.

Brady Nolan (he/his), Co-Founder of <a href="https://www.hellotill.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Till</a>Brady Nolan is Co-Founder of Till, the leading fintech platform for renters. Till’s purpose built Flexible Rent helps renters of all income levels and financial means take control of their rent. Flexible Rent creates personalized rent schedules aligned with each renter’s income, allowing their biggest recurring expense to be paid when they get paid, while ensuring properties are paid in full and on time. Further, Till’s Credit Builder is the only entirely FREE, positive report only rent reporting tool available.Prior to founding Till, Brady held executive level roles and multiple institutional multifamily investment and development companies and completed hundreds of millions of dollars of transactions nationally, delivering thousands of homes.

Julia D'Antonio (she/hers/ella), Co-Founder &amp; CEO, <a href="https://www.cazeira.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Cazeira</a>Julia has worked on housing and homelessness for over a decade as a community organizer and Shelter Client Advocate. She is currently the co-founder and CEO of Cazeira. Still immersed in her community, she sits on the board of the San Francisco Coalition on Homelessness and Prop C Our City Our Home Committee as Vice Chair and Community Impact Liaison - overseeing $350 million a year towards housing and services for people experiencing homelessness. After experiencing housing instability as a youth in San Francisco and later living in family shelter with her oldest daughter, she was introduced to community organizing as a way to systematically change circumstances for all unhoused and at-risk San Franciscans. She is working to build self-sustaining tangible tools for low-income, working class, and historically excluded communities of color. She is also inspiring and providing opportunities for others with diverse lived experiences to build the tools they would like to see in their communities. In her spare time, she creates mixed-medium art and spends time with her daughters ages 8 and 10, while continuing to immerse herself in the community, volunteerism, and policy work

Michelle Boyd (she/hers), Chief Strategy Officer, <a href="https://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/housing-lab/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Terner Labs </a>Michelle Boyd is Chief Strategy Officer for Terner Labs and Director for the Housing Lab, the Terner Labs program to support early-stage entrepreneurs tackling the high cost of housing. She brings nearly a decade of experience in community and startup finance, organizational design, and urban policy research. Prior to joining the Terner team, Michelle worked as a strategy consultant for the Bridgespan Group, collaborating with nonprofits, social entrepreneurs, and foundation leaders across issues of community development, housing, and education. Michelle holds an MBA from the Haas School of Business, an Interdisciplinary Graduate Certificate in Real Estate from UC Berkeley, and a BA in Public Policy from the University of Chicago. Michelle also serves as a Chamberlin Fellow with the Urban Land Institute.

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