D. Del Río, M. George, R. Haggerty, H. Husock & K. Capps

Teaches at Museum of the City of New York - Public

Deyanira Del Río, Co-director of the New Economy Project. Their mission is to build an economy that works for all, based on cooperation, equity, social and racial justice, and ecological sustainability. Del Río is also the board chair of the LES People’s Federal Credit Union and the NYC Community Land Initiative.

Monique “Mo” George, Executive Director of Picture The Homeless (PTH). PTH's numerous victories include passing legislation for the Housing Not Warehousing act that will remove thousands of units from being warehoused by landlords and placed back in to active units. She was recently recognized as one of CSNY's Brooklyn Power 50.

Rosanne Haggerty, President and Chief Executive Officer of Community Solutions. Community Solutions was launched in 2011 to help communities solve the programs that create and sustain homelessness. Haggerty is a MacArthur Foundation Fellow, Ashoka Senior Fellow, and Hunt Alternative Fund Prime Mover.

Howard Husock, Vice President for Research and Publications at the Manhattan Institute. Husock is also director of the Institute’s social entrepreneurship initiative and a City Journal contributing editor. He is the author of Philanthropy Under Fire (2013) and The Trillion-Dollar Housing Mistake: The Failure of American Housing Policy (2003).

Kriston Capps (moderator) is a staff writer for CityLab, the urban-focused site of The Atlantic, covering housing, architecture, and politics. He previously worked as a senior editor for Architect magazine.