This week GOPC and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy hosted the third webinar in our series “Keeping People in Their Homes” a series exploring strategies for promoting neighborhood stability in the time of COVID. Each webinar in the series addresses themes of neighborhood stability by focusing on strategies well-suited to a variety of actors, including philanthropy. mission-driven developers, local governments and non-profit community advocates.
This week’s webinar was entitled “Rental Protection Legislation for Local Governments” and focused on legislations to protect tenants housing stability. Panelists discussed a variety of rental legislation laws and ordinances passed in 2020. These included: Cleveland’s Right to Council legislation, rent receipt and late fee ordinances in Dayton, OH, and Source of Income Protection ordinances.
If you were unable to attend the webinar, here is this weeks panel discussion.
Panelists for this webinar were:
Abigail Staudt, Managing Attorney, The Legal Aid Society of Cleveland
Debra Lavey, Senior Attorney, Advocates for Basic Legal Equality (Dayton)
Amy Klaben, Founder & Principal, Strategic Opportunities (Columbus)
The panel was moderated by Robert Killins, Jr., Director of Special Initiatives, Greater Cincinnati Foundation.
There is one more webinar in the series which focuses on local government strategies to promote neighborhood stability. GOPC has planned this webinar in partnership with Center for Community Progress and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. Please see the links below to register or for more information.