2025 Inclusive Housing Summit
Advocating for Change
Join HOPE and learn about the disability housing movement and how it led to where we are today, when individuals with disabilities have the right and choice to live in inclusive housing and to HOP
November 17th, 2025
8:00am-4:00pm
The Friday Conference Center
in Chapel Hill
The objective of the Inclusive Housing Summit is to explore models of inclusive living for all ages and abilities and advocate for their development and funding in North Carolina. This year we will be exploring how the built environment can either enable or disable and how to create communities where everyone can be as independent as possible for as long as possible. Great topics for housing developers, aging and disability professionals, state and local leaders and people with lived experience! Join us!
Esther Greenhouse, M.S., CAPS
CEO, Silver to Gold Strategic Consulting
Longevity Strategist & Environmental Gerontologist
Industry Scholar, Cornell Institute for Healthy Futures
Meet our Keynote Speaker!
Esther Greenhouse is a Longevity Strategist and CEO of Silver to Gold Strategies. She is a visionary working on solutions at the intersection of societal problems, aging, disability, and design for 30 years. Esther works with organizations to reduce preventable long term care and caregiving needs and costs with the goals of enabling people to be as physically and financially independent as possible today--and as they age.
KEYNOTE TITLE:
Advocacy is for Everyone
Breakout Sessions (will repeat in the morning and the afternoon, so you will choose 2 to attend, one for the morning session and one for the afternoon session)
Session A: What do recent Medicaid and HUD cuts mean to I/DD supports and housing?
Session B: NC Inclusive Housing Coalition: How groups are working across NC on I/DD inclusive housing
Session C: How state organizations (NCHFA and DHHS) are addressing inclusive housing
Session D: Thinking outside the box—Strategic Partnerships for Inclusive Housing
Please support HOPE NC’s Annual Inclusive Housing Summit by becoming a sponsor or having a table in our Exhibit Hall. Email sponsorship@hopenorthcarolina.org with questions or click here to register.
A special thank you to our Platinum Sponsors Alliance Health and Duke Health, our Gold Sponsors Community Bridges, Grace Federal Solutions and BCBS of NC and all of our sponsors who made this event possible.
Please support HOPE NC’s Annual Inclusive Housing Summit by becoming a sponsor or having a table in our Exhibit Hall. Email sponsorship@hopenorthcarolina.org with questions or click here to register.
A special thank you to our Platinum Sponsor Alliance Health and our Gold Sponsors Money Follows the Person, UNC Cares and BCBS of NC.
Platinum Sponsors
Gold Sponsors
Silver Sponsors
The Davis Family
