SEATTLE, April 2, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --
| What: | Nearly five years into its worst slump in decades, America's housing market is finally showing sparks of life. Zillow, the | ||||||
| leading real estate marketplace, Progressive Policy Institute and Columbia Business School have assembled a roster of | |||||||
| elected officials, industry leaders, executives, economists, public policy experts and media for a two-day forum to | |||||||
| discuss and debate what's worked, what hasn't, and what trends are around the corner, as both the public and | |||||||
| private sectors respond to the longest housing recession in recent history. | |||||||
| America's Housing Crisis: Private Sector Responses and Public Policy Innovation will kick off on the evening of | |||||||
| Wednesday, April 4 with a reception and opening presentation by Nobel-Prize winning economist and Columbia | |||||||
| Business School professor Joseph E. Stiglitz, and Ronnie C. Chan, Chairman of Hang Lung Properties, who will speak on | |||||||
| Housing in a Global Context. The following morning, the forum will continue featuring a distinguished group of | |||||||
| speakers and panelists who will discuss and debate the merits of allowing the market to right itself, versus creating | |||||||
| new policies to help individuals in financial distress. Additional event information and full agenda can be found here: | |||||||
| http://www.zillow.com/blog/category/housing-forum/ | |||||||
| When and Where: | Housing in a Global Context | ||||||
| Special Presentations by Joseph E. Stiglitz and Ronnie Chan | |||||||
| Wednesday, April 4, 2012 | |||||||
| 6 p.m., Columbia Club, 15 West 43rd Street | |||||||
| Forum: Private Sector Responses and Public Policy Innovation | |||||||
| Thursday, April 5, 2012 | |||||||
| 8 a.m. – noon, Grand Hyatt New York, 109 East 42nd St. | |||||||
| Who: | The Honorable Jim Himes, United States Representative; Joseph E. Stiglitz, University Professor at Columbia | ||||||
| University, Winner of the 2001 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics; Ronnie C. Chan, Chairman, Hang Lung Properties | |||||||
| Limited; Richard A. Smith, Chairman, CEO and President, Realogy Corporation; Peter M. Orser, President and CEO, | |||||||
| Weyerhaeuser Real Estate Company; Laurie Goodman, Senior Manager Director – RMBS Strategy, Amherst Securities | |||||||
| Group; Christopher J. Mayer, Paul Milstein Professor of Real Estate, Columbia Business School; Janice Eberly, | |||||||
| Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy, U.S. Department of the Treasury; Scott Simon, Managing Director, PIMCO; | |||||||
| Joseph Gyourko, Professor of Real Estate, Finance and Business and Public Policy, Wharton School of Business; Jack | |||||||
| Macdowell, Chief Investment Officer, Carrington Capital Management; Jason Gold, Progressive Policy Institute; | |||||||
| Spencer Rascoff, CEO, Zillow; Stan Humphries, Chief Economist, Zillow; and S. Mitra Kalita, Wall Street Journal. | |||||||
| Media Interviews: To attend this event or to schedule media interviews following the event, please contact Katie Curnutte at 206-757-2785 or email press@zillow.com. | |||||||
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