Hosted By: Housing Santa Cruz County (HSCC)

Join us for an inspiring afternoon featuring a presentation and Q&A with Dr. Margot Kushel, MD on the intersection of affordable housing, homelessness, and public health, as well as light refreshments and networking with affordable housing professionals and supporters.

For over three decades, Dr. Kushel has both cared for people who experience homelessness and studied the causes, consequences, and solutions to homelessness. Presenting results from her research -- including the largest representative study of homelessness in three decades -- Dr. Kushel will outline how we got here, what the consequences are, and what we need to do to advance solutions. She will discuss new possibilities opened by recent policy advances, the evidence behind Housing First, and the critical role of advancing affordable housing solutions to end homelessness and improve health outcomes. Dr. Kushel is a professor of medicine at UCSF and Director of the UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative.

Your ticket purchase includes entry to the event and light refreshments. We urge you to make an additional contribution to support Housing Santa Cruz County in advancing our mission to ensure Santa Cruz County is an inclusive, thriving, just, diverse, culturally rich and sustainable community by promoting affordable, safe, stable homes for local residents and workers.

Thank you for joining the conversation during Affordable Housing Month and helping HSCC advance our goals to make sure everyone in Santa Cruz County has access to safe, stable, and affordable housing!

Tickets can be purchased at bit.ly/ahm-kickoff-2024