A panel discusses the implications of rapidly-raising housing prices in Silicon Valley and its neighboring communities. The panelists are concerned with how a middle-class family can afford a house and also the phenomenon's effect on homelessness in the Valley.

Speakers

Name: Del Buono, Barry

Description: Executive director, Emergency Housing Consortium

Name: Galante, Carol

Description: President, Bridge Housing

Name: Guardino, Carl

Description: President and chief executive officer, Silicon Valley Manufacturing Group (1997); President and CEO, Silicon Valley Leadership Group (2008)

Name: Lazzarini, Mark

Description: Executive director, Homebuilders Association of Northern California

Name: Lofgren, Zoe

Description: Member (from California), United States House of Representatives, 1995- ; member, Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors, 1981-94; staff assistant, U.S. congressman Don Edwards, 1970-78

Name: Simitian, Joe

Description: Member, Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors, California