"Leveraging Affordable Housing to Advance Economic Mobility in NYC"
The Center for an Urban Future's third annual NYC Economic Mobility Summit

DATE: Wednesday, July 15th
TIME: 8:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. 
LOCATION: Citi Headquarters
45 Hubert Street
New York, NY 10013

To attend in-person, RSVP via this link.
To watch the livestream, RSVP via this link. 

Confirmed speakers include:

• City Council Speaker Julie Menin
• HPD Commissioner Dina Levy
• CUNY Chancellor Félix V. Matos Rodríguez
• Rafael Cestero, President & CEO, Community Preservation Corporation (CPC)
• David R. Jones, President & CEO, Community Service Society (CSS)
• Brandee McHale, Head of Community Investing and Development at Citi and President of the Citi Foundation
• Christie Peale, CEO & Executive Director, Center for NYC Neighborhoods
• Christine Quinn, President & CEO, Women In Need, Inc. (Win)
• Maria Torres-Springer, President, The Charles H. Revson Foundation
• Molly Wasow Park, CEO, NYC Housing Partnership
• Barika Williams, Executive Director, ANHD (Association for Neighborhood & Housing Development)
• Thomas Yu, Executive Director, Asian Americans For Equality

Please join us for the Center for an Urban Future’s third annual NYC Economic Mobility Summit. This year’s summit will explore the important, but often overlooked, connection between housing and economic mobility. While there is an exciting consensus emerging that New York will need to develop a significant amount of new affordable housing to address the city’s affordability crisis, the summit will discuss how the city can also leverage housing policy to expand economic mobility, asset building, and wealth creation—and ensure that a lot more New Yorkers are able to not just get by, but get ahead. 

This timely event will feature several compelling, solutions-focused conversations. Among other things, it will explore opportunities for NYC to leverage housing policy to expand pathways to home ownership and asset building, discuss how city leaders can open doors to opportunity-rich neighborhoods through leveraging vouchers that support long-term mobility, and examine how housing instability has become a barrier to college and career success for so many CUNY students—and what policymakers can do about it.  

Details
Wednesday, July 15, 2026
8:00 a.m. to 12:30p.m. (doors open at 8; program begins at 8:45)
@ Citi Headquarters
45 Hubert Street

To attend in-person, please RSVP via this link. 
To watch the livestream, please RSVP via this link. 

We are committed to providing access and reasonable accommodations in our programs. For questions or requests regarding access and accommodation, please contact Sophia Tumolo at [email protected] at least 72 hours in advance of the program.

The Center for an Urban Future’s third annual NYC Economic Mobility Summit is supported by the Citi Foundation. General operating support for the Center for an Urban Future is provided by The Clark Foundation and The Altman Foundation. CUF also receives ongoing support from several other philanthropic funders.