Wider Path Home the foundation which was created to discuss the challenges of affordable housing and to promote financial literacy & homeownership in diverse communities is offering a three part lunch and learn series.
We will be discussing:
the motivation for starting Wider Path Home and what we are doing
many other topics around why minority groups have such vastly different homeownership rates
what we can do as mortgage professionals.
What: Embrace's Wider Path Home Foundation Educational Series Part 1: Addressing a History of Housing Redlining
When: Wednesday, October 6, 2021, 12pm – 1:30 pm EST
Where: Either Hutching Hall or Virtually Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82080816399
Why: “When we become Americans, we accept not only citizenship’s privileges that we did not earn but also its responsibilities to correct wrongs that we did not commit” (Shane Phillips, The Affordable City)
Learn how the housing industry has used redlining over time past to present to set in motion housing inequalities and segregation that continue today.
Learn also what is incumbent upon the housing industry now and how Embrace’s Wider Path Home Foundation is bringing together the housing sector to counter this redlining through collective action.
Who: Wider Path Home Foundation
Wider Path Home Foundation Presenters: Dennis Hardiman, WPH Founder, Brian Gilpin, President of WPH, Audley Lewis, Senior Loan Officer Embrace and Treasurer WPH, Sarah Hobson, Ph.D. President & Founder Community Allies, Consultant in Community Development & Educational Programming
Featured Presenters: Ben Giammara, Director of Legal and Regulatory Affairs, Embrace Home Loans
Tom Pinkowish, President, Community Lending Associates
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