This webinar is the second in a two-part series, “Building Equity and Market Strength in Legacy Cities: Context-Driven Equitable Development,” which presents strategies from a working paper published by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and the Greater Ohio Policy Center. In this series, we examine strategies identified in the working paper that promote equitable outcomes while also protecting against overstepping and diminishing the market strength essential to sustained revitalization.

In this webinar, “Private Development Programs for Weak Markets,” speakers will present emerging programs driven by for-profit developers to build local market strength, often with a focus on meeting the needs of existing residents or supporting minority contractor business development.

As policymakers and practitioners address the nation’s shortage of affordable housing, including housing available for affordable homeownership, they face several headwinds, such as inflationary pressures, mounting climate risks, and the potential for further economic cooling. The lack of housing supply combined with rising interest rates is pushing access to high-quality homeownership even further out of reach for many households, especially households of color. Despite these challenges, nonprofit organizations and community development financial institutions continue to innovate, leveraging new federal policy changes and investments to create new housing that addresses the supply gap, improves resilience to climate risks, and meets the unique homeownership needs of those most often denied the opportunity. 

Please join the Urban Institute and practitioners from across the country to understand the innovative ways they are addressing housing supply and affordability challenges, creating new forms of climate-resilient housing options, and leveraging federal flexibilities to overcome barriers in local contexts.

This webinar is the first in a two-part series, “Building Equity and Market Strength in Legacy Cities: Context-Driven Equitable Development,” which presents strategies from a working paper published by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and the Greater Ohio Policy Center. In this series, we examine strategies identified in the working paper that promote equitable outcomes while also protecting against overstepping and diminishing the market strength essential to sustained revitalization.

This webinar, “Equitable Development Programs for New Construction in Weak Markets,” will present detailed examples of strategies applicable in weaker real estate markets that can deliver equity benefits in novel ways. These strategies are suitable for local actors working in places that cannot sustain broad inclusionary housing policies or exactions due to the lack of market strength, political will, or both.

Registration Fees

On or Before February 17:  $175/person (member/nonmember)
After February 17:  $250/person (member/nonmember)

Registration for the 2023 virtual event includes access to the symposium recordings, which will be available on Monday, March 6, and remain available through June.

Registration will close on Friday, February 24.

Team Discount

Purchase nine registrations for your organization and get a tenth registration free! After completing the first nine registrations online, complete and submit this Team Discount Registration Form to get your tenth registration free. The Team Discount is available through Friday, February 17.

Cancellation and Substitution Policies

Cancellation and substitutions are not allowed.

Attendee Roster

Interested in who will be attending the symposium? The attendee roster is updated every Friday at 12:00 p.m. ET.

Code of Conduct

The National Council of State Housing Agencies is committed to providing a professional environment at all of our events, welcoming people from as many diverse backgrounds as possible. We expect each event to be a respectful, harassment-free environment for all people regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, physical ability, nationality, age, socioeconomic status, and belief.

In pursuit of those goals, which are applicable at virtual and in-person events, speakers, staff, attendees, and volunteers at NCSHA events are expected to abide by this Code of Conduct. Participation in this event indicates your acknowledgment and acceptance of this code of conduct.

Join HJN for a listening session to learn more about HUD’s proposed Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule!

This session will provide an overview of the proposed rule, with a focus on:

public housing authorities’ obligations and responsibilities;
community engagement opportunities for HUD assisted households; and
the new complaint and enforcement process.

Who should attend?

HJN attorneys and advocates who are engaged in fair housing advocacy (or want to be), represent HUD assisted households, or work with tenants, organizers or community groups who are trying to improve PHA and/or fair housing policies in their communities

What will we discuss?

We look forward to your participation in a facilitated discussion about the rule and strategies for submitting comments. Some questions to consider:

What different or additional regulatory changes to the rule would be more effective in increasing tenant protections, emphasizing the voices of affordable housing residents who are members of protected classes, and preventing displacement and/or evictions?
Does the rule provide for meaningful community engagement?
Does the planning process provide for a robust analysis for PHAs to examine their own policies and practices? Does it provide for a robust analysis of other program participants’ impediments to fair housing? Does the process set goals for overcoming systemic and longstanding inequities in their jurisdictions?
What clarifications or improvements are needed to the compliance and enforcement procedures in order to provide for meaningful compliance with the AFFH obligation?

Moderator:
Natalie N. Maxwell, National Housing Law Project


Speakers
Christopher Buerger, National Legal Aid & Defender Association
Debby Goldberg, National Fair Housing Alliance
Rasheeda Phillips, PolicyLink
Phillip Tegeler, Poverty & Race Research Action Council

On Friday, January 27, 2023 from 11am - 12pm, GOPC Director of Strategic Engagement Jason Warner will provide an overview of Ohio’s state budget process. Participants will learn more about when and how Ohio lawmakers will enact two of the state’s primary budgets: the state Transportation Budget and the Main Operating Budget. Following the presentation, participants will be able to ask questions.

You must register in advance for the webinar. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. 

On Friday, January 27, 2023 from 11am - 12pm, GOPC Director of Strategic Engagement Jason Warner will provide an overview of Ohio’s state budget process. Participants will learn more about when and how Ohio lawmakers will enact two of the state’s primary budgets: the state Transportation Budget and the Main Operating Budget. Following the presentation, participants will be able to ask questions.

You must register in advance for the webinar. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. 

Every other Thursday at 1:30 p.m. ET, join NAHRO for our bi-weekly Housing Updates from Washington where NAHRO staff discuss the hottest topics coming out of Washington D.C. impacting the housing and redevelopment industry.

This is your opportunity to hear directly from NAHRO about the most pressing issues happening in Washington. Topics range from regulatory updates, Congressional happenings, administration priorities, and anything else NAHRO staff flag as needing immediate attention. By signing up today for our 2023 series you’ll automatically be enrolled for all our sessions for the year.

By providing assistance to very low-income households seeking housing in the private rental market, HUD’s Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program has proven to be an effective tool in reducing overcrowding, homelessness, and housing instability. However, concerns about and negative experiences with the program have discouraged some private landlords from participating, thereby limiting the impact of federal dollars.

Fortunately, some Public Housing Authorities and local governments have implemented innovative strategies to make the program more workable for landlords. In this webinar, BPC will host a discussion with local leaders to explore the various difficulties the HCV program faces and showcase successful strategies and solutions to overcome these challenges.

Featured Speakers:

Philip Garboden
Professor, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Michael Johnston
Executive Director, Cambridge Housing Authority

Ivory Mathews
CEO, Home Forward

Moderated by:

Owen Minott
Senior Policy Analyst, BPC

Addressing the pandemic-exacerbated housing crisis demands an all-hands-on-deck approach. Residents, practitioners, policymakers, funders, and researchers must come together to learn and act in real time to keep renters stably housed. In fact, innovative policy solutions have been designed and implemented over the past two and a half years, and the present moment provides us an opportunity to better understand and assess the effects and future prospects of a more stable and secure housing market for renter families. 

In this context, the Housing Crisis Research Collaborative launched in April 2020 to solicit and respond to the most pressing questions policymakers and practitioners have faced throughout the pandemic. Comprising four research institutions, seven practitioner networks, and multiple partner researchers, the collaborative works in real time to address questions around what forms of rental assistance and eviction prevention show the most promise, how renters are responding to financial stress, how landlords are responding to arrears, and which regulatory and legislative fixes have been most effective.

Join the Housing Crisis Research Collaborative and the Urban Institute for insights from published and upcoming research on how policymakers, researchers, community members, and funders can work together to support renter stability and equitable rental housing in the US during and beyond the pandemic.

Opening remarks

• Solomon Greene, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research, US Department of Housing and Urban Development

Panel 1: Leveraging and Learning: How Are Local Governments Using Federal Dollars for Renter Stability?

• Samantha Fu, Policy Associate, Research to Action Lab, Urban Institute

• Elizabeth Kneebone, Assistant Vice President, Community Development Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Panel 2: Eviction Prevention after the Emergency Rental Assistance Program

• Alexa Eisenberg, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Poverty Solutions, University of Michigan

• Ray Kong, Legal Director, Lawyers for Equal Justice, Hawaiʻi Appleseed Center for Law & Economic Justice

• Katherine M. O’Regan, Professor of Public Policy and Planning, Director of the Master of Science in Public Policy Program, and Director of the Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy, New York University

• Zach Neumann, Cofounder, Executive Director, and Attorney, Covid-19 Eviction Defense Project; Nonresident Fellow, Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center, Urban Institute (moderator)

Additional speakers to be announced.

The 2023 Qualified Allocation Plan and 9% Application Training Webinar will be held via Microsoft Teams on December 7th at 10am. See Below to add it to your calendar:

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Join us for a special night out following the Ohio Housing Conference welcome reception as we network with our fellow OWAHN members and friends to celebrate a year of success, hard work and support from our sponsors, all while enjoying live entertainment, food and beverages.

OWAHN will also be raising money for various charities to support selected residential projects around the state!

Tickets are limited, so register today!

For information on table sponsorship, email: srhodes@nationalchurchresidences.org

In the last few years, at least eight states have passed eviction record sealing laws, and eviction sealing legislation is being considered in several other cities and states across the country. These laws protect tenants by limiting the ability of tenant screening companies to access eviction filing data and sell it to landlords, locking tenants - even those who ultimately had their eviction cases dismissed - out of future housing opportunities.

At the same time, eviction sealing laws can obscure access to court records, which are the primary data source for tracking evictions and informing policies to prevent them.

Join the Future of Land and Housing Program at New America to discuss the wave of eviction record sealing legislation gaining traction across the country, and hear from local stakeholders at the forefront of finding ways to preserve access to court data for the public good while still protecting tenants.

Agenda:

 
Welcome: Yuliya Panfil, Director, New America Future of Land and Housing Program

 
Opening Remarks: Why Eviction Record Sealing is Urgent and Necessary

Natasha Duarte, Project Director, Upturn

Marie Claire Tran-Leung, Evictions Initiative Project Director and Staff Attorney, National Housing Law Partnership

 
Panel: How to Preserve Access to Eviction Data while Protecting Tenant Privacy?

Brittany Ruffin, Senior Counsel, The Washington Legal Clinic on the Homeless

Scott Davis, Public Information Officer, Maricopa County Justice Courts

Moderator: Sabiha Zainulbhai, Senior Policy Analyst, New America Future of Land and Housing Program

Q&A Session

Join the Affordable Housing Tax Credit Coalition for our 2022 Post-Election Webinar, taking place on Thursday, November 10 at 4:00 pm ET. During this virtual event, AHTCC leadership will share their analysis on the future of affordable housing policy after the midterm elections take place in November. The discussion will include conversations about Congress’s agenda for the coming months, potential changes to congressional leadership, and opportunities to strengthen and expand the Housing Credit.

Current AHTCC members may register for this webinar below for free. Non-members must pay a $100 registration fee to attend the webinar, and should register by emailing info@taxcreditcoalition.org with their full name and organization. Please contact Caroline Zonts at caroline.zonts@taxcreditcoalition.org with any questions.

Building inspectors must regularly make difficult – and sometimes surprising – choices that can significantly impact lower-income homeowners, owner-occupants of small multifamily buildings, and the tenants in those buildings. Requiring expensive repairs to address code violations can impose untenable financial burdens on some owners, many of them older households and/or households of color. But not requiring those repairs may expose owners and tenants to unsafe living conditions. In this talk, Robin Bartram, an assistant professor of sociology at Tulane University will discuss her book, Stacked Decks: Building Inspectors and the Reproduction of Urban Inequality. Drawing on her extensive research into code enforcement in Chicago, Bartram will show that building inspectors often make surprising choices about who to cite (and who not to cite) and discuss how these choices underscore the continuing challenge of persistent inequality.

This event will be online only; please register here to attend.

In the next five years, over 300,000 federally-assisted apartments and rental homes will reach the end of their current subsidy contracts and affordability restrictions for low-income families. While many of these homes will remain in the affordable housing stock, others could be permanently lost. The National Housing Preservation Database (NHPD) makes it easier than ever to identify affordable rental properties. The NHPD includes a mapping tool that allows users to pinpoint federally assisted properties of interest; a searchable database that allows users to download property and subsidy level data on affordable rental properties; and newly available preservation profiles that report the number of homes at risk of loss in each state. Join the Public and Affordable Housing Research Corporation (PAHRC) for our webinar, Using the National Housing Preservation Database, on Wednesday, November 2, 2022 from 2-3 p.m. ET. Participants will learn how to: • Utilize the latest features of the NHPD through a live demonstration • Identify federally-assisted properties at risk of loss • Recognize risk factors that increase the likelihood of a property to being lost from the federally-assisted housing stock Speakers: • Kelly McElwain, Lead Research Analyst, PAHRC • Eric Brushett, Research Analyst, PAHRC

About this event

* Distinguishing between Employees, Independent Contractors and Volunteers

* Labor Union Organizing

* Remote Work Issues

* Nonprofit Advocacy vs Lobbying

* Using a Relation 501(c)(4) to Engage in Lobbying

* Q&A

Have you ever struggled to help your clients keep their rental housing? Would you like to learn how to assist your clients who are at-risk of eviction as they communicate with their landlords during this difficult situation? We provide critical training skills for professionals who want to assist tenants in maintaining housing stability. In this course, you will learn: 1. How best to help tenants before, during and after they may become at-risk of involvement in an eviction proceeding. 2. How tenants can avoid the top 10 mistakes that often lead to eviction. 3. How to link tenants in need to a host of community resources that are available in Central Ohio to help during a sudden/short- term housing crisis. 4. How tenants with past evictions or less than perfect credit can access decent housing, even in today’s housing market. This course will take place from 8:30 a.m. to noon (Eastern Time). Please note that the deadline to register is 48 hours prior to the start date/time of the training.

This entry in the Getting Serious About Housing Supply series explores new approaches to preserving affordable housing for rent and sale.

With the U.S. suffering from an acute shortage of affordable homes, the preservation of the existing affordable housing stock is more critical than ever before. Even when combined with repairs and rehabilitation, preserving a home that is affordable to a low- or moderate-income household is generally less expensive and more cost-effective than new construction. It also prevents the displacement of households that otherwise would be forced to relocate. This webinar, the eighth in our Getting Serious About Housing Supply series, will explore new ideas and approaches to the preservation of affordable housing both for rent and sale.

The City of Columbus, Grants Management Section would like to invite you to the first public meeting for the 2023 Annual Action Plan to review and discuss proposed programs for Department of Housing and Urban Development grant funds. The meeting will be held on Tuesday, October 18th at 5:30pm, in the garage conference room at 141 N. Front St. Parking is available in the garage, and the conference room is located on the first floor.

This year, we received 37 Community Development Block Grant applications from external agencies and 12 from internal departments, making this the most competitive applicant pool the City has seen for CDBG funding. We are still carefully considering all of these applications and have not made any final selections yet. Projects for the HOPWA, HOME, and ESG grants are also being presented.

Please join us on Tuesday if you are interested in learning about the project proposals we received for 2023 funding. A summary of all project proposals will be available on our website: https://www.columbus.gov/finance/financial-management-group/Grants-Management/. We will be accepting public comments on the proposed projects until October 24th. Comments may be sent to grantsmgmt@columbus.gov.

Improving community health, achieving equity and promoting sustainable healthcare spending is a shared responsibility between public and private partners. One way to advance community health is through intentional partnerships between public and private entities, often part of community benefit strategy and programs.

This forum will highlight programs that hospitals and healthcare systems use to improve community health, with a particular emphasis on cross-sector partnerships that improve health, achieve equity and promote sustainable healthcare spending.

What exactly is affordable housing and, more importantly, how do we create housing that is truly affordable? In the first session of OCDCA’s six-part Affordable Housing 101 Series, Roy Lowenstein of Lowenstein Development will dive into definitions and strategies that will lay groundwork for future sessions in the series.

Tuesday, October 18th

10:00 AM - 11:15 AM

Cost:

OCDCA Members: Free

Non-Members: $10

The US housing market finds itself at a pivotal moment: an acute housing supply shortage of about 4 million units coupled with historic home price appreciation have led to a crisis in affordability. At the same time, policymakers and industry leaders have responded with significant proposals and innovations to overcome these challenges.

Join the Urban Institute and Ivory Innovations for a half-day symposium featuring dialogue with the 2022 winners and top 10 finalists of the Ivory Prize for Housing Affordability. The Ivory Prize, organized by Ivory Innovations, is an annual award recognizing ambitious, feasible, and scalable solutions to housing affordability. Innovators include small- and large-scale companies, nonprofit organizations, and government entities. Their solutions for housing affordability combine elements of construction and design, finance, and policy and regulatory reform that are catalyzing new approaches to drive the housing sector forward.

Date: Friday, April 1, 2022Time: 2-3pm ET

Location: Virtual

Speaker(s): Adam Travis

The share of small (one-to-four unit) rental properties owned by corporate entities has grown steadily over the past several decades, rising from around 3 percent in 1990 to approximately 18 percent in 2018. To date, however, there has been little research into key questions about the types of entities that own the properties and where they are located. In this presentation, Adam Travis, a PhD candidate in Sociology & Social Policy and Meyer Fellow will present research that draws on data from the nation's 50 largest metropolitan areas to examine the current landscape of corporate housing ownership. The research highlights the often-overlooked importance of small- and mid-sized corporate landlords. It also shows that rates of rental housing ownership by corporate entities vary considerably at both the metropolitan and neighborhood level and are consistently higher in neighborhoods with larger shares of Black residents.

This event will be held on Zoom; registration is required.

The State of the Region is one of Central Ohio’s most significant events of the year. During the State of the Region, we highlight community accomplishments and showcase upcoming plans for leading our region into the future. It is attended by the region’s top political, business, and civic leaders as the year’s premier event.

The 2022 State of the Region will be held at the Greater Columbus Convention Center on March 16 from 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. More details about the event will be shared soon.

If your organization is interested in sponsoring the State of the Region, contact Amanda McEldowney at amceldowney@morpc.org.

The BlueGreen Alliance Foundation (BGAF) is in the process of developing a ‘QAP scorecard’ in an effort to strengthen standards within the nation’s largest affordable housing program. In addition to energy efficiency and healthy building practices, the scorecard will include an equity section and adopt scoring criteria and best practices for incorporating racial equity provisions in communities assisted by Low-Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTC). BGAF has contracted with Miriam Zuk, Ph.D. of Ground Works Consulting to support us in the development of the equity criteria to be included in the scorecard. This informational sessions will be held to share existing information and to gather input from stakeholders on how to best capture the various ways that LIHTC/QAP intersect with equity for the purposes of the scorecard.

Please contact Miriam Zuk (miriam@groundworksconsulting.org) or Jeff Hurley (jhurley@bluegreenalliance.org) with any questions.

Many communities facing dramatic losses of affordable market rate housing, increasing land costs, and rising costs of new construction are having to consider alternative strategies to keep their communities affordable to live. Shared equity models of housing, including community land trusts, housing cooperatives, and resident-owned manufactured housing, have emerged as a viable approach to stabilize communities from the pressures of displacement while producing new homeowners in the process.

Sponsored by NeighborWorks America, this webinar will explore multiple shared equity models and the potential that they offer for communities, particularly in underserved areas, to build wealth while maintaining neighborhood identity. Panelists will discuss how to develop successful shared equity programs, the financing tools available at the federal and state levels, the unique sense of autonomy they can provide for communities, and the overall benefits of shared equity programs that encourage equitable growth and maintain housing affordability.

Register today to join on Wednesday, March 2, from 2 to 3 p.m. ET!

The panel will include:

• Moderator: Kris Siglin, Vice President for Policy and Partnerships at the National Community Stabilization Trust

• Shanti Abedin, Director of Shared Equity Housing at NeighborWorks America

• Tony Pickett, CEO at Grounded Solutions Network

• Kaia Peterson, Executive Director at NeighborWorks Montana

• Jenny Ortiz, Vice President of Design and Development at Neighborhood Partnership Housing Services

This event offers attendees the opportunity to connect with mentors who are among the most influential women in the business community for small group coaching sessions.