As mayors and county leaders from across the country visit Houston to learn from our experience, what are the best practices and lessons learned that we are sharing with them?

 

What should we do in the future in the commercial real estate industry and larger community to maintain our momentum and house more people as pandemic-era funding sources are being consumed?

 

Our expert panel look forward to sharing their insights with our members!

 

Opinion: How Houston's homelessness breakthrough could be a national game-changer | CNN

 

 

Michael Nichols
President/Chief Executive Officer
Coalition for the Homeless

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dr. Charlene Flash is the President and CEO of Avenue 360 Health and Wellness, an 8 -site health system in Houston that provides cradle to grave care while addressing social determinants of health such as housing instability, food insecurity and racism. Dr. Flash is an infectious disease physician who holds voluntary faculty appointments as an Associate Professor at the University of Houston and at Baylor College of Medicine as an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Disease. She launched one of the first HIV Prevention Programs in the US outside of a clinical trial. She provides primary care to people living with HIV and her research addresses health care disparities, HIV testing, prevention and treatment and implementation science. Dr. Flash is a graduate of Yale University and of Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Dr. Flash received her master’s in public health from Rutgers School of Public Health. Dr. Flash completed Medicine-Pediatrics residency at Brown University and adult infectious disease fellowship at Harvard - Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Dr. Flash is married with 3 children.

  

 

As New Hope Housing’s founding President and Chief Executive Officer, Joy is responsible for real estate development, property management, social service programming, fundraising, marketing, public relations and administration. New Hope is a 30-year nonprofit developer of life-stabilizing, affordable, permanent Housing + Services to help stabilize and advance the lives of people coping on limited incomes.

 

With Joy’s leadership, New Hope Housing has grown from an organization that operated 40 units of apartment housing to one with more than 1,500 apartment homes at 11 properties around Houston. New Hope has additional developments under construction and in the funding pipeline including housing for families and seniors. The organization is also consulting with other organizations wishing to replicate its model.

 

New Hope is the leading provider of supportive housing in the State of Texas. The organization’s historic mission of offering exclusively SRO housing for the formerly homeless broadened in 2013 to include supportive housing for vulnerable families. Fifty-five percent (55%) of New Hope’s portfolio is dedicated to Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH), serving the chronic homeless.

 

Since inception, New Hope Housing has assisted more than 12,000 people, and has raised more than $245MM in layered, debt-free financing for capital expansions, organization operating funds and resident services. New Hope has received numerous prestigious local, national and international awards honoring the organization’s innovative and transformative approach to community change.

Samantha Maggiani is Director of Homelessness Response and Strategy at Harris County Office of Administration and brings to the role nearly 10 years of hands-on experience in program development, implementation logistics, and system innovation. Samantha’s career began as a Program Manager with Corporation for Supportive Housing where she delivered project management and implementation coaching to support the system re-design of the local homeless response system in Houston. As the Assistant Director of System Transformation at Clutch Consulting Group, Samantha further honed those skills by providing real-time coaching and facilitative leadership to communities all across the country to drive complete transformation of social service systems. In this role, she was responsible for leading the design and implementation of practical strategies and management structures required to achieve drastic results and empower innovative support programs and services. Throughout her career, Samantha has demonstrated success in strategic planning and capacity building, providing step-by-step technical assistance and leadership through the change process and building working partnerships that bridge government agencies, non-profits, and other stakeholders in pursuit of collective impact goals. Samantha’s sense of urgency to create a positive change for those surviving homelessness drives her to be community focused, understanding the importance of results-oriented solutions and promoting a strong, unified message through advocacy and education.