March 16-18, 2017, the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard hosted an intensive training workshop for journalists on covering housing and related issues. Our goal was to bring together a diverse group of reporters, academics, researchers and practitioners in order to help journalists deepen their reporting skills and expand their thinking around housing issues and how they intersect with all beats.
The workshop was made possible with the generous support of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and with assistance from the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University.
Videos
Thursday, March 16, 2017
Friday, March 17, 2017
- Scott Keller, partner at Horne LLP, who served as a senior advisor to Donald Trump’s presidential transition team and Dr. Ben Carson
- Michael Stegman, fellow, Bipartisan Policy Center
- Diane Yentel, president and CEO, National Low Income Housing Coalition
Moderator: Chris Herbert
- Chris Krehmeyer, president and CEO, Beyond Housing
- Nadeem Mazen, city councilor, Cambridge, Mass.
- Aaron Gornstein, president and CEO, Preservation of Affordable Housing
Moderator: Erika Poethig, Institute Fellow and director of urban policy initiatives at The Urban Institute
- Dr. Megan Sandel, associate director of the GROW clinic at Boston Medical Center; principal investigator with Children’s Health Watch; associate professor of pediatrics at the Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health
- Ingrid Gould Ellen, professor of urban policy and planning at NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and faculty director of the NYU Furman Center
- Kate Walz, director of the Housing Justice program, Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law
Moderator: Chris Arnold, NPR correspondent
- Jake Blumgart, reporter, PlanPhilly
- Laura Kusisto, reporter, The Wall Street Journal
- Kriston Capps, staff writer, CityLab
