LABC Mayoral Housing, Transportation, & Jobs Summit 2016

The Clean Coalition wasa partner organization for the Los Angeles Business Council’s (LABC) 2016 Mayoral Housing, Transportation, and Jobs Summit,which tookplace on October 28, 2016 at the University of Californiain Los Angeles, CA.

This year’s Summit focused onnew strategies to increase housing production to meet Los Angeles’ goal of building 100,000 new housing units by 2021, with deliberate policies to address the city’s workforce housing needs. The LABC called on businesses and community leaders to actively support the passage of Metro’s LA County Ballot Measure R2, a new half-cent sales tax to invest a minimum of $120 billion to expand the county’s transit infrastructure and reduce congestion.

Featured speakers included:K. Robert Turner, Principal & CEO of Turner Impact Capital; Clyde Holland, Chairman & CEO of Holland Partner Group; Phil Washington, CEO of Metro; Doug Guthrie, President & CEO of the Housing Authority of Los Angeles; Shad Balch, Manager of New Product & Public Policy Communications for General Motors, and many more.

Summit Co-Chairs included:The Gilbert Foundation, Bank of America, Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco, and Haworth/Unisource.