San Francisco has led the way in the nation around Housing Preservation: from the inception of the Small Sites Program in 2009 to the first-of-its-kind COPA legislation, now being emulated from California to New York. What are the lessons of Housing Preservation as a strategy against displacement? Given the ongoing outmigration and displacement of the African American community, what role can a sufficiently funded and scaled Preservation program have in the Black community? How is Housing Preservation leading the way to new housing cooperatives for BIPOC communities? How big can we go – in Small Sites, Big Sites, and SRO preservation – in the next two years, or by 2030? And what’s the potential for a permanent source of funding in San Francisco?

Moderated by Karoleen Feng, Mission Economic Development Agency. With:

• Young Community Developers

• Saki Bailey, San Francisco Community Land Trust

• Chris Cummings, Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation

• Fernando Martí, CCHO, vice-chair of the Housing Stability Fund Oversight Board