South Florida Symposium
A Place Under the Sun for Everyone
Housing Affordability and Economic Development Identifying a Research Agenda
Thursday, November 8th, 8:00 a.m.- 3:30 p.m.
Palm Beach County Convention Center
650 Okeechobee Boulevard
West Palm Beach, FL 33401

FINAL PROGRAM

8:00—8:45 am Registration/Networking Breakfast
8:45—9:00 am Welcome—Jim Murley, Director, Center for Urban and Environmental Solutions—Florida Atlantic University
9:00—10:45 am Affordable and Workforce Housing
Moderator—Susan J. Leigh, Principal, Community Concept Group, Inc.
Panelists: Ned Murray, Ph.D., AICP, Associate Director, Metropolitan Center—Florida International University ~ “The Municipal Scorecard for Affordable Housing Delivery”
James Carras, MPA, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Urban and Regional Planning—Florida Atlantic University ~ “Housing Finance Research Issues”
Jaap Vos, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Urban and Regional Planning—Florida Atlantic University ~ “Low Income Housing Rhetoric versus Real Low Income Housing Needs”
Discussion
10:45—11:00 am Break
11:00—12:30 pm South Florida Economic Development Challenges
Moderator—Greta von Unruh, Executive Director, Economic Development Research Institute
Panelists: David Denslow, Jr., Ph.D., Research Economist BEBR and Distinguished Service Professor, University of Florida Department of Economics ~ “New Developments in Economic Development Research”
Larry Henson, Business Intelligence Officer, Tampa Bay Partnership ~ “Using Business Intelligence to Foster Targeted Economic Development”
Z. Joe Kulenovic, Senior Director, Strategic & Market Analysis, Enterprise Florida “Increasing Access to Economic Development Research and Expertise”
Discussion
12:30—2:00 pm Lunch Keynote Speaker
Introduction—Jim Murley, Director, Center for Urban and Environmental Solutions—Florida Atlantic University
Speaker: John Talmage, President & CEO, Social Compact, Washington D.C. “What You Really Need to Know That No One is Researching: Developing a Research Agenda for Housing Affordability in South Florida”
2:00—3:00 pm Call for Papers—Research Gaps
Moderator—Dario Moreno, Ph.D., Director, Metropolitan Center—Florida International University
Panelists: Rachel Bach, Project Director (Southeast Florida), J. Ron Terwilliger Center for Workforce Housing ~ “Workforce Housing: Identifying the True Cost of Regulatory Barriers and Solutions to Reduce the Costs”
Sukumar Ganapati, Assistant Professor, School of Public Administration—Florida International University ~ “A Regional Governance Approach to Housing Crisis”
Discussion
3:00—3:25 pm The Affordability and Economic Development Research Nexus:
What We Have Learned and What We Need to Know
Interviewer — Steve Zelkowitz, Managing Partner, Gray Robinson
Speaker: Frank Schnidman, Esq., Senior Fellow, Center for Urban and Environmental Solutions—Florida Atlantic University
Discussion
3:25—3:30 pm Concluding Remarks—Lenore Alpert, Ph.D., Assistant Director of Research, Center for Urban and Environmental Solutions—Florida Atlantic University