What's Next for Housing in the Bay Area?

Please join us for a student-moderated panel on housing policy and development in the Bay Area. Sponsored by the Berkeley Real Estate Club as a follow-up to last year's "Is There Hope for Housing in the Bay Area?", "What's Next for Housing in the Bay Area?" will look back at the past year and discuss the effects of recent legislative and policy changes on rents, affordability, and the supply of housing, while discussing political, social, and economic factors that shape the state of housing in the Bay Area and innovations that may lie ahead. We'll hear from an expert panel that includes a Berkeley City Councilmember, a director from the San Francisco Mayor's Office of Housing and Community Development, and both market-rate and affordable housing developers.

There will be networking from 5:30-6:00 and the panel will start promptly at 6:00 PM. Light snacks and refreshments will be provided.

See bios below for more on our esteemed panelists.
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Lori Droste - Berkeley City Councilmember. Councilmember Lori Droste is the District 8 representative for the City of Berkeley. She teaches at Mills College in the Public Policy Department. Prior to her election, Lori served on Berkeley's Housing Advisory Commission as well as the Chair of Berkeley's Commission on the Status of Women. Lori has worked tirelessly on housing affordability, homelessness, children's recreation, traffic mitigation, and family-friendly policies. She believes that Berkeley must increase housing availability and affordability because people who work in Berkeley should be able to live here.

Lisa Motoyama - Director of Real Estate - Special Initiatives, San Francisco Mayor's Office of Housing and Community Development. Lisa is responsible for the infrastructure and real estate aspects of the HOPE SF Initiative. Prior to her transition to the public sector, Lisa was an affordable housing developer and advocate in the nonprofit sector. In her previous position as housing development director, she was responsible for the development of over 1100 units serving over 3,000 low income adults and children, many with special needs. With over 20 years of housing development experience, Lisa brings her passion and expertise to improving the lives of low income people. She has a master's degree in City and Regional Planning from UC Berkeley and a bachelor's of arts degree in History and Art History from UCLA.

Adhi Nagraj - Director of Development, BRIDGE Housing. Adhi Nagraj is the Director of Development at BRIDGE Housing Corporation. Over his career, Nagraj has participated in the development or preservation of over 1,600 units of affordable housing, representing over $850MM in capital investments. Nagraj supervises a team of project managers working in Oakland, San Francisco, San Leandro, Berkeley, and various other cities around the Bay Area. He serves as the Chair of the Oakland Planning Commission and was recently appointed by Governor Brown to serve on the Board of CHPC, a statewide affordable housing policy organization. Additionally, he serves on the Executive Board of Directors of SPUR. Nagraj is a graduate of Brown University and Columbia Law School.

Scott Youdall - Development Partner, Hanover Company. Scott Youdall is responsible for overseeing Hanover Company's development activity in Northern California, working mainly in the San Francisco Bay Area. Before joining Hanover, Scott served as Vice President of Acquisitions for SummerHill Apartment Communities, where he was responsible for growing the firm's multi-family development portfolio. Scott has extensive experience in the Bay Area, where he has spent over 12 years procuring and entitling new development sites for both apartment and single family home communities. He is a graduate of Cornell University and holds an MBA from the Haas School of Business at University of California, Berkeley.

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