Panelist
Panelist
Juawana Grant
Director of Education & Outreach Nevada Housing Coalition
Juawana Grant serves as Deputy Director of Housing Programs for Nevada Housing Division. She came to this role with over 15 years in the nonprofits sector from homeless services to statewide capacity-building and advocacy to advance affordable housing in Nevada. Her years providing direct services and tenancy support to chronically unhoused individuals has fostered an impassioned commitment to the affordable housing movement, and Housing First models in particular. Juawana has a B.A. in Cultural Studies from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and an M.A. in Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies from the University of British Columbia Okanagan. She started her career in nonprofits at the Jean Nidetch Women’s Center at UNLV and is thrilled to be back home in Las Vegas making herself useful to the community that raised her.
Speaking at
Mission Priority
Tue Oct 29
2:30 PM — 4:00 PM (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time
Resorts World Las Vegas - Level 2, Orchid Ballroom A
ULI Homeless to Housed Symposium
Join host and moderator Lisa Benjamin (Lexicon Strategies and ULI Global Governing Trustee) for the third ULI Homeless to Housed (H2H) Symposium to explore solutions to the U.S. housing and homelessness crisis. Keynote speaker Mandy Chapman Semple (Clutch Consulting Group) will discuss Houston’s transformative homeless system, which reduced homelessness by 60% in four years, and outline private sector opportunities for “creating a new marketplace” for deeply affordable housing for individuals with extremely low or no income.
A multidisciplinary panel will weigh in, featuring Peggy Bailey (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities), Juawana Grant (Nevada Housing Division), and Jess Molasky (Ovation Co.). Special remarks provided by Preston Butcher, ULI Foundation Governor.