FCSN South Bay Free Seminar – 092918

Housing Choices

+ What Housing Choices is doing to help special needs people get housing

+ How hard it is now to get affordable housing

+ How to get help from Housing Choices

+ What parents are doing to advocate for housing for their special needs adult children

Jan Stokley, Executive Director, is a graduate of the University of Virginia with highest honors where she was an Echols Scholar.  Following a Fulbright Fellowship, she attended the University of Virginia School of Law where she graduated with the Order of the Coif. After practicing law with a firm in Los Angeles, Jan moved to the practice of affordable housing law with the National Economic Development & Law Center (now the Insight Center for Community Economic Development). Jan was a clinical law professor at the University of Maryland School of Law and led two other Bay Area nonprofit organizations before joining Housing Choices in 2012.  She has written extensively in the fields of affordable housing, family support services, and early care and education. A parent of an adult daughter with developmental disabilities, Jan finds that her job at Housing Choices has woven together many different threads of her life in complex ways that never fail to surprise and reward.