Homelessness Is a Housing Problem

The Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University will host Homelessness Is a Housing Problem, the second in a series of university-wide events on housing and homelessness. This talk by Gregg Colburn, an Associate Professor of Real Estate in the University of Washington’s College of Built Environments, will discuss findings from Homelessness Is a Housing Problem, a book he co-authored that tests a range of conventional beliefs about what drives the prevalence of homelessness in a city, and what types of policies could address the problem. Lyndia Downie, President and Executive Director of Pine Street Inn, the largest homeless service provider in New England, will join Colburn in a conversation moderated by Chris Herbert, the Managing Director of the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University. 

This event will be webcast; Zoom registration is required.

Limited in-person seating is available for Harvard affiliates only at Harvard Kennedy School, Wexner 330, 19 Eliot St, Cambridge. Registration is required to attend in person.

This event is the second in a series of university-wide events on housing and homelessness and is co-sponsored by the Harvard Kennedy School Government Performance Lab; the Initiative on Health and Homelessness at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; and the Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative.