Hear from a market rate developer, a nonprofit developer and a builder about how they assemble a new development project in Ventura County. You'll learn about the levels of investment throughout the different stages of a project, why affordable housing is so expensive to build, and about bidding, upcharges, fluctuating prices and major project costs.

Moderator:     Mark Di Cecco

Panelists:      Vince Daly, The Daly Group 

                     Sarah McCarthy, McCarthy Companies

                     Alexander Russell, Many Mansions

Redevelopment as we've known it is dead in California. Learn about Successor Agencies, what Ventura County cities and nonprofits are doing to fill the funding gap, and the potential implications on other funding sources.

Panelists:   Alan Greenlee, Southern California Association of

                  Nonprofit Housing (SCANPH)

                  Jeff Lambert, City of Ventura

                  Dan Hardy, Housing Authority of the City of San

                  Buenaventura

Who makes up the current housing market? Investors are scooping up cheap houses by the thousands, while buyers are getting lost in multiple offers the day a home is listed, all while interest rates are at historically low levels. Hear a macro perspective on the long-term future impacts of the current housing economics.

Presenter:   Bill Watkins, California Lutheran University Center

                  for Economic Research & Forecasting (CLU CERF)