Bellingham for Everyone Learning Series

Join Bellingham For Everyone every other month for fun, virtual events that will keep our Allies engaged, educated, and mobilized! All events are virtual and great for ALL neighbors. The Learning Series focuses on a variety of housing topics relevant to our community and beyond from zoning to middle housing. Our hope is to enourage our Allies, community, neighbors, and friends to stay informed.

If you have any questions, concerns, or ideas for future topics - please email Scott Pelton
at info@whatcomhousingalliance.org

John Emmeus Davis
May 15, 2023 at 4:30 pm

John Emmeus Davis has been involved in the development of community land trusts since the early 1980s. He assisted with the early development of community land trusts in the United States.

He worked as the housing director and Enterprise Community coordinator for the City of Burlington, Vermont from 1986 to 1996, under mayors Bernie Sanders and Mayor Peter Clavelle. Davis is the President, Center for CLT Innovation.

He was one of the founding partners in Burlington Associates in Community Development in 1993, a consulting cooperative providing assistance to nonprofit organizations and municipal governments in designing and evaluating policies, programs, and projects promoting permanently affordable housing. He previously served as the housing director and Enterprise Community coordinator for the City of Burlington, Vermont. He has also worked as a community organizer and nonprofit executive director in the Appalachian region of East Tennessee. He is on the faculty and board of the National CLT Academy and currently serves as the Academy’s dean.

John will be talking about the state of Land Trusts in the United States, the place they play in our housing crisis, barriers the CLT community faces and how partner organizations and citizens can help.

Homelessness and Affordable Housing in California with Ned Resnikoff March 14th, 2023

“The Affordable City: Strategies for Putting Housing within Reach (And Keeping it There)”, with Shane Phillips

This event, hosted by Bellingham For Everyone, we were joined by housing scholar Shane Phillips, who will discuss the findings in his book, “The Affordable City: Strategies for Putting Housing within Reach (And Keeping it There)”. Watch the Recording.