Speakers
Marcos Segura – Staff Attorney, National Housing Law Project
Marcos Segura is a staff attorney at the National Housing Law Project (NHLP) who focuses on the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit program, USDA’s Rural Development program, and NHLP’s California policy work. Before joining NHLP, Marcos was a staff attorney with Central California Legal Services where he represented individuals facing eviction and represented others in both state and federal court on real estate fraud, predatory debt collection, and habitability issues. Before joining CCLS, Marcos served as a UCLA Community Economic Development Fellow at the Public Counsel Law Center where he advised nonprofit organizations and small business owners on tax and corporate governance issues.
Shanti Singh – Communications and Legislative Director, Tenants Together
Shanti Singh left the tech industry to work full-time in tenants’ rights after organizing with renters in private, public and nonprofit housing, alongside housing justice groups in San Francisco. She formerly co-chaired the San Francisco Democratic Socialists of America and works on tenant & land use issues there, in addition to being a city commissioner for clean municipal energy, chair of the SF Housing Stability Oversight Board, and a board member of the San Francisco Community Land Trust. She’s worked on several SF Board of Supervisors races, ballot measures, and most recently, as Deputy Data Director for the California and New York campaigns of Bernie Sanders. She has a B.A. in Economics and Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania. She’s excited to be back for her second stint at Tenants Together to fight for every California tenant’s right to a union through digital organizing, local ballot support, & state legislative advocacy.
Barbara Crain – Area Director of Property Management Group, Mercy Housing Management Group
Barbara leads property management at Mercy Housing for projects in the Bay Area. Mercy Housing California is the largest regional division of Mercy Housing, Inc., the nation’s largest nonprofit affordable housing developer.
Moderator
William Wilcox – Tax-Exempt Bond Program Manager, San Francisco Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development
William Wilcox joined the San Francisco Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development (MOHCD) in 2022 as the bond program manager. He oversees all conduit bond issuance, the development of new housing finance tools, state and federal housing finance policy advocacy, and provides in house technical expertise across multi-family development at MOHCD. William earned his Master of Public Policy degree from the University of California Berkeley’s Goldman School with a focus on housing policy. He holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago.
