2025 Housing Opportunity Conference: Session Digest
2025 Housing Opportunity Conference
Session Summary:
Session Summary: The Housing Opportunity Conference is one of the premier national meetings of the housing development, lending, investment, and policy community. The 2025 conference was held in Atlanta, Georgia, reaching 574 registrants, with 68 speakers, and 14 sponsors. Over two days, the conference offered twelve concurrent sessions under four different thematic tracks – market-rate, innovation, finance, affordable housing – three general sessions, four tours, and numerous networking opportunities at meals and receptions. This session digest summarizes the sessions and tours that took place at the 2025 Housing Opportunity Conference.
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Event Session
The Atlanta Model
This general session featured a dynamic conversation between Egbert Perry, Renee Glover, and Josh Humphries, moderated by NPR’s “Closer Look” host, Rose Scott, about the innovative approaches that Atlanta has taken to facilitate equitable development...
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Closing General Session: Federal Housing Policies
The Conference closed with a dynamic fireside chat between Dennis Shea, Executive Director of the Bipartisan Policy Center’s J. Ronald Terwilliger Center for Housing Policy, and Raphael Bostic, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.
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Closing the Racial Homeownership Gap
This panel examined the ongoing effects of inequitable public and private policies that have contributed to the homeownership gap for communities of color in the U.S.