Panelist
Panelist
Josh Humphries
Senior Advisor to the Mayor, Housing City of Atlanta
Josh currently serves as the Senior Housing Policy Advisor for Housing for Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens, leading the development and implementation of the Mayor’s affordable housing agenda. Recent initiatives include leading the acquisition and redevelopment of 2 Peachtree, a 41-story office-to-residential conversion that jumpstarted the City’s office conversion efforts, launching the Housing Help Center a one-stop housing resource shop for residents, creating the new public entity Atlanta Urban Development to leverage public land by building European-style social housing in Atlanta, and delivering 40-unit project the Melody in just four months as phase I of the Mayor’s Rapid Housing initiative to deliver quick-delivery housing for Atlanta residents experiencing homelessness.
Josh is president of the board for the Atlanta Municipal Market and a board member for HouseATL. Josh previously served as the Director of the Office of Housing and Community Development for the City of Atlanta. Prior to joining the City of Atlanta, Josh worked as a community organizer and community development leader in Los Angeles and New York City. Josh has a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from Kennesaw State University and a master of divinity from Fuller Theological Seminary.
Speaking at
Wed Feb 26
9:00 AM — 10:00 AM (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time
General Session: The Atlanta Model
Type
General Session
Join Egbert Perry, Renee Glover, and Josh Humphries, three prominent figures in the field of affordable housing and urban development, as they discuss their experiences in transforming communities through mixed-income housing, revitalization efforts, and the importance of equitable development. Through this general session, Egbert, Renee, and Josh will illuminate how transforming neighborhoods through investments in housing, infrastructure, and community services can lift communities out of poverty, improve safety, and create economic opportunities for residents. Egbert and Renee's work in places like Centennial Place (first HOPE VI community) will be discussed as an example of successful urban renewal and specifically how Atlanta set the stage for the HOPE VI model nationally. Josh will share solutions for scaling affordable housing efforts that the City of Atlanta has undertaken and all will discuss sustaining the growth of mixed-income communities, with an emphasis on policies and strategies that benefit both current and future generations.