10/17/2022
Finding Home - Flagstaff Event on October 26, 2022
Announcing “Finding Home” The Stories of Affordable Housing Challenges in Flagstaff. Registration open for event raising awareness on local housing challenges The Arizona Republic, the Arizona Community Foundation of Flagstaff, KNAU, Flagstaff Business News, and ASU’s Morrison Institute for Public Policy are pleased to invite you to “Arizona Storytellers Presents: Finding Home - Flagstaff.” The event will take place on Wednesday, October 26 at 7:00 p.m. at the Coconino Center for the Arts at 2300 N. Fort Valley
Road.
The evening will include first-person storytelling and a panel that will explore solution seeking opportunities to address current affordable housing challenges in the community. Tickets are
free and available at: https://storytellersproject.enmotive.com/events/register/finding-homeflagstaff
The entertaining and educational evening is meant to inspire community connections and spark conversations about potential solutions to the area’s housing challenges. Flagstaff’s recent
attempts at short-term and long-term solutions will be explored. The event will examine how spiraling rent and home costs contribute to the housing shortages and a growing homeless
population.
ACF of Flagstaff, along with community funders, created the Northern Arizona Housing Fund to support nonprofits working to provide relief for those facing affordable housing challenges.
“Finding Home” will feature storytellers from several of those groups.
“This economy has left too many people behind, forcing too many people to be unable to pay for a roof over their head,” said Greg Burton, executive editor of The Republic and azcentral.com. “Hopefully, by coming together, we can find a way out of this crisis. We can identify solutions for Flagstaff and other Arizona communities. None of us will fix this alone.”
Ryan Heinsius, KNAU Executive Producer, will be the emcee for the evening which will feature live storytelling from people who have been challenged by the affordable housing situation in
Flagstaff.