Development Trends

75-Minute Education Session

Public Practitioners

SAT-C07 - Making Space for Homelessness: Innovative Approaches to Housing, Spaces, and Services

1.25 PDH, LA CES/HSW, AIA/non-HSW, AICP, FL

Lead Speaker(s)

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  Christopher Ward

  Councilmember
  City of San Diego

Speaker(s)

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  Brandon Davis

  Director of San Francisco and Social Innovation
  Downtown Streets Team
• LM

  Lena Miller

For designers and policy makers, homelessness has become the new core competency, influencing every decision made about the public realm and the built environment. Learn from empathetic innovators who are crafting new policies to both engage and empower people who have been traumatized by the experience of homelessness.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the root causes of homelessness in contemporary American cities.
• Explore the various ways that homelessness manifests and affects contemporary cities, particularly their public spaces.
• Learn how cities are revamping their policies, programs, and procedures to better protect the health, safety, and welfare of all residents.
• Identify “better practices” that practitioners and policy makers can use to improve the lives of people experiencing homelessness in their communities.