Legal Aid attorney to speak at White House forum this week

Hazel Remesch, Managing Attorney of Legal Aid's Housing Practice Group, will present at a White House Summit this week.  The event, called "Building on Emergency Rental Assistance to Ensure Long-Term Eviction Reform," will be held on Tuesday August 2, 2022 from 12:30-2:30pm (ET).

The event will include remarks from other top officials and top experts, including Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Evicted, Matthew Desmond, State Supreme Court Chief Justices, leaders of model innovations, senior officials in the Biden-Harris Administration, as well as House Committee on Financial Services Chair Maxine Waters (CA-43), and Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee Chair Sherrod Brown (OH).

The full roster of speakers will cover a variety of topics -

The Urgent Need for Eviction System Reform

• Gene Sperling, White House American Rescue Plan Coordinator
• Wally Adeyemo, Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of the Treasury
• Matthew Desmond, Eviction Lab, Princeton University
• Diane Yentel, National Low Income Housing Coalition

Visionary Court-Led Eviction System Reform

• Vanita Gupta, Associate Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice
• Chief Justice Bridget Mary McCormack, Michigan Supreme Court
• Chief Justice C. Shannon Bacon, New Mexico Supreme Court
• Chief Judge Veronica Henry, New Orleans First City Court

Innovations in State and Local Eviction Prevention

• Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot
• Philadelphia Councilmember Helen Gym
• Andrea Bell, Oregon Housing and Community Services
• Hazel Remesch, The Legal Aid Society of Cleveland
• Zach Neumann, COVID-19 Eviction Defense Project (Colorado)

Congressional Commitment to Building on ERA's Nationwide Eviction Prevention Infrastructure

• Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee Chair Sherrod Brown (OH)
• House Committee on Financial Services Chair Maxine Waters (CA-43)

The Path Forward on Eviction Protections and Closing Remarks

• Erika Poethig, Special Assistant to the President for Housing and Urban Policy

Those interested can register here: https://pitc.zoomgov.com/webinar/register/WN_R7Zojmj6QEODQ9hPVwdXiw.

For questions about the event, please contact evictionprevention@who.eop.gov