Video discusses barriers to affordable senior housing

NJ Foundation for Aging is releasing their 11^th episode of Aging Insights, their cable program.  The subject above refers to the title.  The show can also be seen on their YouTube channel,

http://ping.fm/UJr1r

Featured will be national and local housing advocates – topic issues/barriers to affordable senior housing. 

Guests:  Linda Couch of the National Low Income Housing Coalition, Arnold Cohen from the Housing & Community Development Network of NJ and Curtis Johnson of the Ciocesan Housing Services Corp of the Diocese of Camden.

Law & Disability Issues Conference, COAH update March 31

New Jersey State Bar Foundation and New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education are sponsoring a Law & Disability Issues conference on Thursday, March 31, 2011 at the New Jersey Law Center in New Brunswick from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The half-day event will feature a debate on the constitutionality of requiring the purchase of health insurance and workshops on the integration of peer service into New Jersey’s mental health system and affordable housing.

Kevin Walsh will be panel member for a workshop called Affordable Housing in New Jersey which will provide an update on the status of the Council on Affordable Housing (COAH) and affordable housing laws in New Jersey. The workshop will also include moderator, Stuart Weiner, Community Health Law Project; and panel members, Arnold Cohen, Housing and Community Development Network of New Jersey; Tim Doherty, Project Freedom; and the Hon. Mila Jasey, Assemblywoman, 27th Legislative District.

Admission is free, but reservations are required. To register, download, print, complete and mail in the reservation portion of the brochure.