Litchfield County 2026 Housing Affordability Summit

This event will kick off our webinar series the following week, where attendees will have the opportunity to learn and share even more. Stay tuned for updates. 

Want to know what to expect? See highlights from the 2025 Summit.

Call For IDEAS!

Do you have an idea for how we can create more affordable housing in our region more cost efficiently, more sustainably, and/or by involving more community members? If so, we’d love to hear them. Below, quickly and easily submit your ideas. At this year’s Summit we’ll have two ways to share your ideas: 

1. An interactive IDEAS display wall
2. We’ll pick three ideas to be presented as IDEAS talks at the event

Please submit by completing form below. Proposal materials may also be submitted via email to jennifer@thehousingcollective.org

Not sure what kind of IDEA to submit? Read the guidelines below.

GUIDELINES

We are looking for ideas that provoke learning and inspiration, that contribute meaningfully to the conversation on affordable housing in Litchfield County, and that represent a diversity of voices and experiences. We seek to build consensus and provide outside-the-box thinking, not to revisit familiar, unresolvable disputes on these topics. Specifically we’d like to hear your ideas for how we can create more affordable housing in our region—cheaper (while maintaining quality and durability), faster, more sustainably, or involving more community members. We want to recognize that our local housing non-profits already have these goals in mind AND that there are also new ideas worth exploring on these topics. 

The IDEAS and Talks presented at the Summit will not include inflammatory language, political or religious agendas, or “us vs. them” language. The three selected speakers will have the opportunity to have their talks published as op-eds (edited for space) in The Lakeville Journal after the event. Talks should be between three and eight minutes and can include audiovisual elements. 

Submissions will be reviewed by a panel, including the LCCHO Director, a representative of the Foundation for Community Health, and a local housing non-profit representative. Speakers will be notified of their selection by August 28. Final speech and audiovisual materials (optional) are due for review by September 10. Speakers will attend the summit on September 24 to deliver their talks.