Dear Coalition colleagues: I apologize for the late posting of this meeting and understand if you have conflicts with this timing. I have set up these meetings for the next few months and hope that will help to remind us all. If these Thursday times do not work for you but you still want to participate in the group, let me know and we can revisit the schedule. The schedule and zoom links are below the suggested agenda..

Hope to see you tomorrow,

Rosemary

Here is a starter agenda:

1. Review conversation and ideas from last month (see brief summary attached)

2. Discuss upcoming conferences on housing and equity -Check out

-The annual Housing Washington conference will be in -person at the Tacoma Convention Center on Oct 3-5. with virtual pre-conference conversations the third week of September. Info on speakers at https://www.housingwa.org/speakers (the pre conference speakers during the latter part ofSeptember look good too).

-- The annual conference on ending homelessness will be Oct 5-6 virtually (From speaker list the focus is not so much on strategies for extremely low income housing options, but very strong focus on equity.)

3.Update on planning for Coalition summit event in November focused on housing options for people below 30% AMI, and suggestions for ways to center equity

4. Possible actions during coming month

ZOOM calendar and link

Topic: Coalition Race and Equity Committee
Time: Aug 21, 2023 03:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
Every month on the Third Thu, until Feb 15, 2024, 7 occurrence(s)
Sep 21, 2023 03:00 PM
Oct 19, 2023 03:00 PM
Nov 16, 2023 03:00 PM
Dec 21, 2023 03:00 PM
Jan 18, 2024 03:00 PM
Feb 15, 2024 03:00 PM

Please download and import the following iCalendar (.ics) files to your calendar system. Monthly: https://zoom.us/meeting/tJ0tcOCvqDkjE9UbilKHF9DahM9tXgy7qqWS/ics?icsToken=98tyKuChrjwjHdKXuRCGRox5Ao_CXe3wpnpEj_ponhbpKAh1Oyf3Ps8bJop4CY_B

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Rosemary F. Powers

Senior Researcher, New Connections

(541) 805.0848