The 75% Solution: Planning to House a Majority of the Bay Area’s Homeless and What Can We & Our Companies Do to Help
Join us for our August Chapter Meeting to learn how the Regional Impact Council, a coalition of Bay Area mayors, business leaders, housing experts and social justice advocates, has hatched an ambitious plan to house 75% of the region’s homeless population by 2024.
This interactive presentation by Ken Kirkey and Gail Gilman of AllHome, will examine recent trends among the unhoused, the drivers of homelessness, the RIC’s plan to quickly drive down the number of homeless persons and the important role to be played by private industry.
Speaker Bio:
Ken Kirkey joined All Home as the former Director of Planning for the Regional Planning Program serving the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) and the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG). The Regional Planning Program serves the 9-county San Francisco Bay Area - home to nearly 8 million people. Ken has lead staff for Plan Bay Area, the region’s long-range plan that guides land use, transportation investments, and housing production, and oversaw a staff of 45 people while advancing planning and implementation for a broad range of topics.
Ken served as Planning Director for MTC from 2012-2017. Before joining MTC, Ken served as the Director of Planning and Research for ABAG. He led various programs, including the consensus-based process for developing FOCUS, the Bay Area’s regional blueprint plan encompassing over 150 Priority Development Areas and 100 Priority Conservation Areas nominated by local governments.
Gail Gilman has over 25 years of non-profit experience. She was the former CEO of Community Housing Partnership joining in 2002 and became CEO in 2010 where she spearheaded the local and national conversation on shifting success measurements and outcomes in supportive housing and created a housing ladder, thus moving towards a housing equity framework. Gail deeply knows that population-specific outcomes must be part of any housing interventions for people experiencing homelessness.
She has been extensively involved in regional and national public policy efforts, including most recently as Political Director for San Francisco's 2019 $600M housing bond, as well as co-chairing numerous ballot initiatives ranging from housing bonds to revenue measures for homelessness. Gail has served on several housing and homeless task forces, and presently serves on California’s Homeless Coordinating and Financing Council (appointed by the Governor) and is a City & County of San Francisco Port Commissioner (appointed by the Mayor).
Venue: Zoom (link included in confirmation email)
Schedule: 4:00p: Program // 5:00p: Virtual Networking
Cost: Member: Free // Non-Member: $15.00