How can Santa Fe can become more affordable, sustainable, and vibrant? Join Homewise for the first of their Livability in the Land of Enchantment Speaker Series, featuring local and national speakers.

Food and drinks to follow.

Childcare and translation services will be provided.

About Matthew Desmond

Matthew Desmond is a professor of sociology at Princeton University and author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book Evicted. After receiving his Ph.D. in 2010 from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, he joined the Harvard Society of Fellows as a Junior Fellow. He is the author of four books, including Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (2016), which won the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award, Carnegie Medal, and PEN / John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction. The principal investigator of The Eviction Lab, Desmond’s research focuses on poverty in America, city life, housing insecurity, public policy, racial inequality, and ethnography. He is the recipient of a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship, the American Bar Association’s Silver Gavel Award, and the William Julius Wilson Early Career Award. A contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, Desmond was listed in 2016 among the Politico 50, as one of “fifty people across the country who are most influencing the national political debate.”

About the Series

Homewise explores how Santa Fe can become more affordable, sustainable, and vibrant through their Livability in the Land of Enchantment Speaker Series, bringing local and national speakers to venues across the city. Free public talks will be followed by a social hour with food, drinks, and community building. All other events in this series will be hosted on the 2nd Thursday of the month.

SERIES TOPICS

AFFORDABILITY

• How does a housing market work (or not)? What will it take to have more affordable housing options in Santa Fe?
• How is housing connected to the wealth gap in our community?

SUSTAINABILITY

• What can we do to address the demand on Santa Fe’s housing market while being conscientious about where and how we build?
• How can we pair conservation and development while also decreasing reliance on vehicles in a rapidly growing community like Santa Fe?

LIVABILITY

• How can we ensure that Santa Fe is a multigenerational community that embraces people of all ages?

QUESTION ABOUT THE SERIES?

LIVABLE SANTA FE FELLOWSHIP

The Livable Santa Fe Fellowship is a six-month program that equips community members with the knowledge and skills to help make Santa Fe more affordable, sustainable, and vibrant. Through participation in a speaker series with national and local experts and trainings on how to engage in shaping Santa Fe’s future, this program will deepen fellows’ understanding of the housing market and development patterns in Santa Fe and prepare fellows to take action. Fellows will receive a $500 stipend for participating.

This fellowship is for individuals residing in Santa Fe or neighboring communities interested in these topics and in being part of the solution to the challenges facing the city in terms of planning, development, and land us. Learn more