FIGHT FORWARD CONFERENCES
Association for Neighborhood and Housing Development
Luce Productions has worked with AHND since 2022 to re-imagine, develop and produce their annual Conference series. Shifting from a single-day convening to a series of community-driven conversations in and with the communities that ANHD serves, the Conference series has grown to become a key community engagement and fundraising arm of ANHD’s work. Through events across the boroughs, the events bring together housing advocates, small business leaders, organizers, economic justice practitioners, government employees from the city and state, financial investors and regulators, and academics for pressing conversations around housing on building community power.
Events have included a conversation around the intersection of housing, homelessness, and criminalization at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, a discussion with US Treasury representatives on policies that advance economic equity, a tour of Brooklyn industrial business zones with business and community leaders, and the organization’s first-ever gala, hosted at the Museum of the City of New York, that raised over $350k in unrestricted income for the organization.