Through September’s Mayoral Forum on Affordable Housing in Houston, co-hosts HHC and Trinity United Methodist Church succeeded in putting housing issues on the radar of mayoral candidates. Prior to the forum, campaign materials of the leading candidates had not addressed housing as an issue. At the September 9 forum, leading candidates Robert Gallegos, Lee Kaplan, Sheila Jackson Lee, and John Whitmire responded to questions from the moderators for more than one hour. Over 200 attended the forum at Trinity Church in Third Ward and many others have watched via streaming.