Name: Own It: Prevent Displacement, Build Wealth
Start: 2017-05-25T17:30:00-04:00
Location: The Summit

Own It! Prevent Displacement, Build Wealth

Friday

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November

17

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7:00pm

RSVPs Closed

Our nation has one of the worst wealth gaps on earth, and it is worsening in the Seattle area.

How can we reverse this trend, and preserve our culture, communities and diversity?

This year, Capitol Hill Housing is focusing our annual Community Forum on a single issue: how to build wealth in our communities and close the widening equality gap. As a community development organization, we recognize that wealth inequality is at the root of many of the questions our community faces:

How do we promote racial equity? How do we preserve a space for art and artists in our community? What can help small, local businesses to thrive? How do we help families put down roots in our neighborhoods?

Capitol Hill Housing’s 2017 Community Forum will explore real-world models of building income and wealth for individuals, small businesses and communities, which we believe will help build a more vibrant and engaged city. We have lined up four incredible speakers to talk about solutions that can work, or are already working, in Seattle.

Local Ownership and Asset Building: Wyking Garrett, Africatown

Community Investment Trusts: Sven Gatchev, Mercy Corps Northwest

Equity for Artists: Sam Farrazaino, Equinox Studios

Community Land Trusts: Kathleen Hosfeld, Homestead Community Land Trust

Following their rapid-fire presentations, we’ll host working sessions for all attendees to figure out how to apply these strategies in their communities.

Can't make it? Follow along online at #OwnItSEA.

Speakers

Wyking Garrett

Chief Strategist, Africatown

Wyking Garrett is a third-generation community builder, social entrepreneur and recognized change agent from the Africatown-Central District neighborhood in Seattle, Washington. Wyking designs programs and initiatives that catalyze, mobilize and activate communities for sustainable social impact. He is the chief strategist for the Africatown Seattle community development initiative and has been a co-catalyst for several ventures including the Liberty Bank Building, Umoja PEACE Center, Hack Nation, Black Dot and Africatown Center for Education Innovation.

Sven Gatchev

Community Investment Trust Analyst, Mercy Corps Northwest

Sven is a Community Investment Trust Analyst with Mercy Corps Northwest. The Community Investment Trust (CIT) is a first-of-its-kind financial inclusion tool created to empower residents and strengthen communities. The CIT is designed to remove barriers to financial inclusion and provide a low-dollar investment opportunity in a commercial property to local residents.

Sam Farrazaino

Founder, Equinox Studios

Samuel Farrazaino, a sculptor by nature, has combined his 28 years of construction industry experience and 30 years of working in and with the arts to found Equinox Development Unlimited LLC, a development company dedicated to creating space for Artists and Artisans.

Kathleen Hosfeld

Executive Director, Homestead Community Land Trust

Kathleen's work at Homestead builds on experience in commercial real estate development and her commitments to environmental sustainability, social justice, inclusion and equity. In addition to overall agency leadership, Kathleen leads Homestead’s initiatives to grow the number of permanently affordable homes for ownership in our region through grantmaker and community partnerships.

Program

5:00 PM

Doors Open

5:30 PM

Welcome and Introductions

Chris Persons, Capitol Hill Housing

Andrea Caupain, Centerstone

Opening Poem

Blu the Baqi, Author, Advocate, Spoken Word Artist

5:50 PM

Presentations

Wyking Garrett, Africatown Seattle

Sven Gatchev, Mercy Corps Northwest

Sam Farrazaino, Equinox Studios

Kathleen Hosfeld, Homestead CLT

6:15 PM

Dinner

Little Uncle Thai

6:40 PM

Community Discussion and Report Back

Ubax Gardheere, City of Seattle Equitable Development Initiative

Joshua Okrent, Capitol Hill Housing

Lisa Herbold, Seattle City Council

Erika Malone, Office of Housing

The Summit Building is a community space for the vibrant Pike/Pine neighborhood and has hosted Capitol Hill Housing's annual community forum for multiple years. There is limited paid parking on site, but the location is easily accessible by public transit.

Thank you to our sponsors

We are able to put on this event thanks to the generous support of the following sponsors:

Sponsors Block #1

About Capitol Hill Housing

Since 1976, Capitol Hill Housing has worked alongside the community to build and preserve housing affordable to working families and promote the qualities that make Seattle a vibrant and engaged city. Today, we provide secure, affordable homes to over 2,200 of our neighbors across the city while working to make our neighborhoods safer, healthier and more equitable through the Capitol Hill EcoDistrict.

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