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MEDIA ADVISORY

ATTENTION: ASSIGNMENT DESKS, BUSINESS AND HOUSING WRITERS

09/13/00
Contact: Ute Frey
(510) 642-0342
frey@haas.berkeley.edu



WHAT:

The second annual Conference on Housing and Urban Policy hosted by UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business.

The conference will explore the crisis and opportunity in California's current housing market. Experts from development, government and nonprofit sectors will debate how to improve housing delivery, emphasizing smart housing investment in urban areas, the impacts of welfare reform on needy families, and programmatic experiences with federal subsidies.

 
WHO: California State Treasurer Philip Angelides, the keynote speaker, will address affordable housing finance. Susan Wachter, assistant secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, will address the federal role in housing and urban policy in an afternoon speech.  
WHEN: Monday, Sept. 18, 2000, from 8:50 a.m. to 3:15 p.m.  
WHERE: UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business, Arthur Andersen Auditorium. The school is located on Gayley Road, between Hearst Avenue and Bancroft Way.  

DETAILS: The program is sponsored by the Berkeley Program on Housing and Urban Policy, which provides research and teaching in housing and the application of knowledge to urban policy across the campus.

NOTE: Media representatives wishing to attend the program must contact Ute Frey at the Haas School of Business in advance. Frey can be reached at (510) 642-0342 or frey@haas.berkeley.edu.