National Organization of African Americans in Housing
"The American Dream at 250: Housing, Equity, and the Future for African Americans"
Register Now at noaah.comAs the nation marks 250 years of independence, NOAAH convenes its 2026 National Housing Conference in Richmond, Virginia—a city whose very geography bears the weight of American housing injustice. Over two days, practitioners, policymakers, residents, and advocates will engage in an honest reckoning: Has the promise of the American Dream ever been kept for African Americans? And what must we do, together, to keep it?
The conference features a signature interview-style format where NOAAH Board Members draw out the expertise of local Richmond practitioners, community leaders, national policy voices, and residents—placing community knowledge at the center of housing policy conversation, not the margins.
A departure from traditional panel formats—NOAAH Board Members conduct live interviews that place community knowledge at the heart of every conversation.
Leave with more than a conversation. Working groups will draft specific, time-bound commitments carried forward to city leadership, RRHA, and Virginia's legislative delegations.
A signature three-hour guided walk tracing the path of enslaved people through Richmond—one of the only documented walks of its kind in the United States.
Hosted at Virginia Union University's Living & Learning Center, an HBCU founded in 1865 on the grounds of a former Civil War prison camp.
"We did not come to Richmond only to remember. We came to be changed by what we remember—and to go home and change what is still broken."— NOAAH 2026 Conference Closing
July 7–8, 2026 · Virginia Union University · Richmond, Virginia