• How rural households are changing

• How it affects housing

• Aging in place vs move over housing

• Public cost of private inaction

Ben Winchester is an Extension Educator with the Extension Center for Community Vitality at the University of Minnesota. You may know him for his work on the Rural Brain Gain Migration.

• Creative ways to tailor housing solutions locally

• Leverage tech classes and city owned houses for rehab

• Become a housing innovation center 

Becky McCray is a co-founder of SaveYour.Town. You might know her from her work creating the Idea Friendly Method.

• Adaptive reuse and how it works

• Difficult buildings: schools and more

• Upper floor housing, across the price spectrum

Deb Brown is a co-founder of SaveYour.Town. You might know her from her work creating the Tour of Empty Buildings.