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Spring Meeting & Luncheon at Embassy Suites
LWV SLOCO 2024 Spring Meeting & Luncheon
"Housing Options: Community Solutions in a Time of Crisis"
Keynote Speaker: Anne Wyatt, Executive Director, Smart Share Housing Solutions
Join us on Saturday June 1
10:00 am - 1:00 pm
for our Spring Meeting & Luncheon
In person at the Embassy Suites
We're having a taco bar! 
Price: $55
This event to open to the public.
Please RSVP here by May 21.
“It’s complicated,” admits Anne Wyatt, District 2 SLO County Planning Commissioner and Executive Director of Smart Share Housing Solutions. Finding solutions to high housing costs, the lack of affordable housing, and homelessness in our community will require new ideas and innovative efforts. We face a “perfect storm” of rising prices and a population less and less able to pay them and old approaches to the problem are not enough.
Wyatt will draw from her extensive experience with housing issues from government policy making, to private market-rate home rental management, to non-profit housing development to address the issues. As a leader in the movement to offer more affordable and sustainable housing alternatives in our community, she will describe housing options and the alternative housing projects underway locally, including transitional (emergency) housing, home-sharing, accessory dwelling unit production, commercial to residential conversions, movable home allowances, and co-living developments.
“We have housing options available to us and our fellow community members,” Wyatt says, “the big question is whether we’re going to come together to collectively reimagine our policies, our neighborhoods, and our funding priorities to support them.”
Join us on June 1 to learn more.
This event is open to everyone.
- League members, please log into your member account in Club Express to register for yourself and your guests (if applicable).
- Non-League Members, please register as a Non-member Attendee.
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The in-person meeting will be held at the Embassy Suites. Doors will open for check-in at 10 am, with the meeting starting at 10:30 am. The price for the in-person meeting, including lunch, is $55.
Register here to attend the meeting & luncheon.
Or call us at 805-242-6990 to register by phone.
About our Keynote Speaker:
Anne Wyatt is a planning consultant specializing in affordable housing, historic preservation, and sustainable mobility. She is Executive Director at Smart Share Housing Solutions, a San Luis Obispo County non-profit affordable housing developer. She is currently serving her second term as District 2 representative on the County Planning Commission. She served 4 years starting in 2007 and rejoined the commission in 2023.
A 28-year resident of San Luis Obispo County, Anne writes on housing and housing policy and has been a frequent contributor to the national magazine Planning. She currently serves on several volunteer boards, including the Casita Coalition, National Shared Housing Resource Center, and Friends of the Bob Jones Trail. She is Vice Chair of the San Luis Obispo County Commission on Aging.
Anne holds a bachelor’s degree in urban studies and planning from UC San Diego and a master’s degree in planning from Cal Poly. She has a wide range of experience with housing issues including in government policy making, private market home rental management, and non-profit housing development. In addition, Anne has lived experience in the less often traveled world of informal housing, squatter camps in Detroit, tent and RV encampments in Slab City – “The Slabs” in Imperial County, and hotel living.