Past Featured Events

Affordable Housing Finance — Strategies, Challenges, and the Way Forward

November 18, 2025

Featuring: 

Mark Attia, Director of MassHousing
Sunshine Mathon, Executive Director of the Piedmont Housing Alliance
Chris Herbert, Managing Director of the Joint Center for Housing Studies

Moderated by:
Samya Mishra MPA 2024, former Rappaport Public Finance Fellow, Researcher on Public Infrastructure Financing at Harvard Kennedy School

Watch the recording:

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In the Zone: Inclusionary Zoning, in Practice

April 30, 2024

Featuring: 

Chris Kluchman, Director of the Livable Communities Division at the Massachusetts Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities
Aaron Clausen, Principal Planning Director for the City of Lynn
Peter Dunn, Chief Development Officer for the City of Worcester
Andrew Levine, Town Administrator of Hatfield
Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler, Cambridge City Councilor

Watch the recording:

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Past Events
 

Greater Boston Debate Series: Noncitizens Right to Vote

Watch a recording of our Greater Boston Debate Series event on February 17, 2022, discussing whether noncitizens should have the right to vote in local elections. 

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Key Takeaways from Change Can't Wait Event Series

A recap of lessons learned from the “Change Can’t Wait: A Justice and Equity Agenda for Boston’s Black and Brown Communities” event series exploring how the historic mayoral election will impact Boston's marginalized residents.  

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HYBRID COLLEGE MODELS CAN HELP CLOSE COLLEGE EQUITY GAP

Watch a recording of our October 2021 event discussing a new paper from the Rappaport Institute and HKS's Program on Education Policy and Governance examining how a hybrid college model may help advance equity in higher ed. 

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AAPI Trailblazers in State Government

Watching a recording of our April 2023 event featuring Massachusetts State Representatives Tram T. Nguyen MC/MPA ’24 and Rappaport Urban Scholar and Tackey Chan. Moderated by Professor Desmond Ang.

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