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Hot Issues NHC FY 2008 Budget Forum March 2, 2007 Russell Senate Office Building Caucus Room (Rm. 325) Washington, DC Special Thanks to Sponsor of the Networking Breakfast

Handouts from and Web sites of Participating Organizations

The Bigger Picture: What’s the Budget Outlook for FY 2008?

Martha Coven, Senior Legislative Associate, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

• PowerPoint Slides: The Federal Budget and the Outlook for Housing (PDF)
• The Effects of the Federal Budget Squeeze on Low-income Housing Assistance (PDF)
• Speaker Biography
  

Priorities and Highlights of the FY 2008 HUD Budget

• Section 8 and Public Housing:
  John Bohm, Department Head, Legislative Programs & Media, National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials (NAHRO)
  
  • NAHRO Statement: President's FY 2008 Budget (PDF)
  • NAHRO FY 2008 Budget Summary and Analysis (PDF)
    
  • Speaker Biography
    
   
• The Housing Finance System (GSEs, Federal Home Loan Banks and FHA):
  Cheryl Patton Malloy, Senior Vice President of Multifamily and Governance, Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA)
  
  • NAHB Analysis of Residential Financial Survey Data (PDF)
  • Comments by Cheryl Patton Malloy (PDF)
  • Speaker Biography
    
• Tax Issues:
  Robert M. Rozen, Partner, Washington Council, Ernst & Young LLP
  
  • Speaker Biography
    

• Critical Funding for U.S. Housing Programs Cut by 8 Percent in Bush Administration's FY 2008 Budget Proposal, February 9, 2007

**Related link to a special edition of NHC's Washington Wire on the FY 2008 Budget Proposal

• NHC Response to the President's State of the Union Address, January 24, 2007