Central Current hosted in March an interactive panel conversation featuring advocates and experts working to fix Syracuse’s housing crisis.
Three experts and advocates who have been involved in work around Syracuse’s housing crisis talked about the numbers behind the crisis and potential solutions. If you missed the panel, you can watch it below.
The panelists included:
- Maxmilian Eyle, Central Current Executive Director
- Eddie Velazquez, Central Current contributor
- Sylvia Espinosa de los Monteros, staff attorney at Volunteer Lawyers Project Of CNY’s tenant defense program
- Alex Lawson, housing policty manager at CNY Fair Housing
- Alex Marion, city of Syracuse Auditor
If you want to read more about the housing crisis, you can read more here:
- For the 1st time in more than a decade, family homelessness outpaces individual homelessness in Central New York
- Syracuse faces a housing crisis. Here’s what we know.
- How 3 advocates would address Syracuse’s housing crisis
- ‘Good cause’ becomes a cold case as Syracuse Common Council pulls legislation for more ‘investigation’
- Syracuse auditor: City needs to get serious about rental registry
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