Event Recap

Join Penn IUR and Wharton Public Policy Initiative in Washington DC for a day-long conference on housing finance reform. Topics include liquidity, macroprudential mortgage-backed securitization and the TBA market, affordability and access, and legislative context for housing reform. Expert speakers and moderators include Scott Frame, Financial Economist and Senior Policy Advisor, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta; Wayne Passmore, Senior Advisor, Division or Research and Statistics, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; Joseph Tracy, Executive Vice President and Senior Advisor to the President, Federal Reserve Bank of New York; Akash Kanojia, Senior Trader/Analyst, Federal Reserve Bank of New York; Roberto G. Quercia,Trudier Harris Distinguished Professor and Chair, Department of City and Regional Planning, and Director, UNC Center for Community Capital, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Mark A. Willis, Executive Director, Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy at New York University; Pillip Swagel, Professor, University of Maryland School of Public Policy; and Susan Wachter, Albert Sussman Professor of Real Estate, Professor of Real Estate and Finance, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and Co-Director, Penn Institute for Urban Research. For more information, please contact Caroline Chang.