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Our guest speaker will be..
Sharon Cornelissen, Director of Housing, Consumer Federation of America
Sharon will be discussing the history of the Federal Home Loan Banks (FHLBanks) and the latest efforts to help reform this GSE to better support the broader economic needs of the country including what changes the FHLBanks can do to help alleviate the housing crisis.
The Consumer Federation of America (CFA) is an association of non-profit consumer organizations that was established in 1968 to advance the consumer interest through research, advocacy, and education. Today, nearly 250 of these groups participate in the federation and govern it through their representatives on the organization’s Board of Directors.
Please join us to learn more about how these reforms can help make a difference in advancing mortgage affordability and housing supply.
Sharon Cornelissen is the Director of Housing for the Consumer Federation of America, where she advocates on behalf of American consumers for fair, affordable housing and equitable mortgage lending.
She brings over a decade of experience as a housing researcher, who is passionate about promoting affordability and racial equity in homeownership. Prior to CFA, she worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies, where she published research briefs and advocated to address contemporary housing discrimination in Massachusetts. During her Ph.D. in Sociology from Princeton University, she lived in Detroit and first-hand observed the challenges of homeowners amidst neighborhood decline. She also gained expertise as a tax foreclosure prevention activist in Detroit and interned at the Detroit Land Bank Authority.
Her work has been featured in local and national media and is published in academic journals. Drawing on three years while she lived and became a homeowner in one of Detroit’s most disinvested neighborhoods, she has a book forthcoming about everyday life in depopulated cities.
NCST’s work increases access to homeownership, promotes resilient neighborhoods, and advances racial equity by advocating for policy change.