DAY 3: LOCAL INITIATIVES: HOFSTRA’S ROLE IN SUPPORTING SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES CENTER FOR CIVIC ENGAGEMENT presents
SESSION 8: SUSTAINABLE HOUSING: CAN LONG ISLAND’S HOUSING POLICY SUSTAIN ITS GROWING DIVERSE POPULATION? This session will discuss the challenges and obstacles to providing adequate housing on Long Island. This area has a long history with segregation and red lining, which has left lasting impacts on communities in terms of racial and ethnic composition, design, and income. Governments and not-for-profit organizations work to reverse the harms of housing practices, but face various challenges including questions about whether deconcentrated race, ethnicity, and poverty are necessarily beneficial to the communities these efforts are intended to help. Dr. Philip Dalton, Director, Hofstra Center for Civic Engagement and Associate Professor of Writing Studies and Rhetoric (organizer) Panelists: • Waylyn Hobbs III, Mayor, Village of Hempstead • Richard Koubek, Secretary of the Huntington Township Housing Coalition, and Chair of the Welfare to Work Commission of Suffolk County • George Siberon, Executive Director of the Hempstead Hispanic Civic Association • Brandy Watson, President of the Board Hempstead Community Land Trust Moderator: Dr. Christopher W. Niedt, Associate Professor of Applied Social Research, Department of Sociology, and Academic Director of the National Center for Suburban Studies Hofstra University
Thursday, September 22, 2022 11:20 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
Leo A. Guthart Cultural Center Theater Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, South Campus
Free and open to the public. Advance registration is required. To register, please visit events.hofstra.edu. For further information, please visit hofstra.edu/ps22 or call the Hofstra Cultural Center at 516-463-5669. 92985:9/22