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Shaping Inclusive Housing: The Kelsey’s QAP Advocacy Guide Launch & Advocates Panel

Fri, Mar 14
Zoom
Text on image reads, “Friday, March 14th, 10AM–11AM PST. Shaping Inclusive Housing: The Kelsey’s QAP Advocacy Guide Launch & Advocates Panel.” Sandra Conley (Disability Advocate), Benji Kemper (Center for Living and Working), Marcos Segura (National Housing Law Project), and Hunter Herrera-McFarland (The Kelsey) are pictured. Sandra Conley is a dark-skinned woman with blonde locs. She is wearing red lipstick, brown glasses, and a blue shirt with a green scarf. Benji Kemper is a white man with short hair, wearing glasses and a blue polo shirt. Marcos Segura is a tan-skinned man wearing glasses, and a white button-down under a black suit jacket. Hunter Herrera-McFarland is a light-skinned Native woman with long black hair, black glasses, and a burgundy shirt, smiling in front of a brick background. Pink, orange, cream, and black shapes make up the background of the image.
March
14

Time & Location

Mar 14, 2025, 10:00 AM–11:00 AM PST

Zoom

Join us on Friday, March 14, 2025, from 10 AM—11 AM PST for our webinar, Shaping Inclusive Housing: The Kelsey’s QAP Advocacy Guide Launch & Advocates Panel.

The webinar will celebrate the launch of An Advocate’s Guide to Advancing Disability-Forward Housing through Qualified Allocation Plans (QAPs)—a new resource designed to equip advocates with concrete policy changes and strategies to influence their state’s Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) policies. We’ll explore the resource and hear from a panel of housing policy experts, disability advocates, and community leaders about how QAPs shape affordable housing and what advocates can do to advance disability-forward policies. Attendees will gain practical tools to take action in their own states and hear real-world strategies from advocates working at the intersection of tenants’ rights, affordable housing, and disability inclusion.

About the Panelists

Sandra Conley has been an active Disability Advocate since 2022; however, she started as a self-advocate 30 years ago. She desires to encourage other persons with disabilities to become self-advocates as well, particularly in the areas of housing, employment, and policymaking.

Benji Kemper is a Community Organizer at Center for Living and Working, an Independent Living Center in Worcester, Massachusetts. He enjoys working with the community to improve accessible transportation and create more affordable accessible housing.

Marcos Segura is a Staff Attorney at NHLP. He focuses on the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit program, USDA’s Rural Development program, and NHLP’s California policy work. Before joining NHLP, Marcos was a staff attorney with Central California Legal Services, where he represented individuals facing eviction and others in state and federal court on real estate fraud, predatory debt collection, and habitability issues.

Hunter Herrera-McFarland is a Policy Manager at The Kelsey, where she leads advocacy efforts to advance disability-forward reforms in the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program at the state and federal levels. Hunter champions policies that require every affordable housing development to prioritize cross-disability accessibility and integrate supportive services so that people with disabilities can live independently in the community of their choice.