Documentary Screening & Panel Discussion: Fighting For Home

Screening of the film, Fighting for Home: How Housing Policy Keeps Connecticut Segregated, a Connecticut Public documentary that explores how the legacy of exclusionary zoning and redlining imposed the painful divide we see today in our state’s current housing crisis. A panel discussion, moderated  by producer Sabrina Buckwalter, will follow the screening.

Panelists:

Nelcia Medley-Avila oversees the housing program at Inspirica. She joined Inspirica from Pacific House and has worked with the homeless population for the past 20 years.

State Sen. Ryan Fazio was elected in August 2021 and represents the 36th District, which includes Greenwich, Stamford and New Canaan. Fazio is the ranking senator on the legislature’s Energy & Technology and Planning & Development committees. He also serves on the Transportation and the Finance, Revenue and Bonding committees.

Carl Gershenson, Director of the Eviction Lab at Princeton University, has published papers about the causes and consequences of housing instability, with a special focus on how eviction leads to further economic and residential insecurity. 

Sean Ghio joined the Partnership for Strong Communities as Policy Director in 2017. There he leads the Partnership’s statewide advocacy efforts on affordable housing and oversees the Partnership’s research, analysis and housing policy recommendations.

Sabrina Buckwalter, Story Producer for “Fighting For Home.” For the past twelve years, Sabrina has worked on various documentaries that all examine the abuse of power in a multitude of ways. She has also worked in television and newspapers, and is a proud college drop-out, having quit school in 2006 to take her first journalism job offer at The Times of India in Mumbai.

Registration required.

Presented in partnership with Connecticut Public.