On June 18, NHC will hold its Annual Member Meeting. We are pleased to announce that House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.) will join us for our Annual Member Meeting on Thursday, June 18 at 4:30 p.m. ET. Rep. Clyburn is the first African American Majority Whip in Congress. Rep. Clyburn will discuss ways housing advocates can be a part of solutions to achieve racial justice and economic equity. The meeting will also feature a presentation by NHC President and…

On May 27, NHC held our Solutions for Housing Communications virtual convening. This event was originally scheduled to take place in March at the National Press Club. Given COVID-19, NHC took necessary steps to cancel the in-person event, but we still wanted to bring people together to take part in important discussions around messaging, marketing and advocacy strategies to build support for affordable housing. We thank everyone for joining us via Zoom, especially all of our speakers and special keynote…

Government support to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 on our country’s housing system continues to be critical as more and more Americans face financial insecurity. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) have taken steps to address COVID-19, including mandating the halt of all foreclosures and evictions of single family homeowners with FHA-insured mortgages, requiring FHA Multifamily program participants to cease evictions of tenants for non-payment of rent for 120 days, and rolling…

As the COVID-19 health and economic crises evolve, the need to quickly access information and share resources across the housing industry will be critical. That is why NHC has created the COVID-19 Housing Resource Center, which features over 400 resources on COVID-19 from every facet of the housing industry.  On April 21, NHC's David Dworkin walked through navigating resources on the new website.   https://youtu.be/msYR6EBsKrw   Speaker David M. Dworkin, National Housing Conference

NHC's March Restoring Neighborhoods featured experts in epidemiology and public health on the COVID-19 outbreak from the University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Public Health, who discussed how to prevent spreading the disease, and appropriate precautions and contingency planning for property managers. Stay-up-to-date with information on COVID-19 and housing on our resource page here.   https://youtu.be/DTfAOYsJ7s4 Speakers Mark S. Dworkin, MD, MPH&TM, University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Public Health Sinan Almukhtar, MD, MPH, University of Illinois at…

For our first webinar of 2020, NHC was joined by some of the housing industry’s most influential economists to discuss the outlook for the 2020 housing economy. This webinar featured: Lawrence Yun, chief economist and senior vice president at the National Association of REALTORS®; Sam Khater, vice president and chief economist at Freddie Mac; and Mike Fratantoni, Ph.D, senior vice president and chief economist at the Mortgage Bankers Association. https://youtu.be/-Xuj-fwA0KQ   Resources Download presentation slides Speakers David M. Dworkin joined…

On Dec. 3, 2019, close to two hundred housing leaders working in housing policy, finance and advocacy; community development; real estate; home building, as well as government officials joined us for Solutions for Affordable Housing at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. The day was packed with sessions to discuss strategies to solve the most pressing policy issues that will have the most impact on how housing policy shapes up for 2020 and beyond. The next day, housers joined…

NHC's first Emerging Leaders in Affordable Housing (ELAH) webinar featured a joint presentation from Lotanna Obodozie from the Local Initiatives Support Corporation D.C. and Olivia Barrow from the Low Income Investment Fund on racial justice in community development work and strategies their organizations use to achieve racial equity in their operations and grant evaluations. ELAH is NHC’s leadership program for housing industry members who are 30 and under. If you have any emerging leaders at your organization, please share this…

Our November Restoring Neighborhoods featured a presentation from Bob Simpson, vice president of Affordable and Green Financing at Fannie Mae and Rachel Cluett, Healthy Housing Rewards manager at Fannie Mae. A growing body of research continues to tie the environments in which people are born, raised and live in to their overall health and other life outcomes. Access to health care services, educational and economic opportunities, walkable and safe public spaces and more are essential aspects of household and community…

Our October Restoring Neighborhoods Task Force webinar featured a presentation from Tanya Torno, principal development specialist for the Housing Authority of the County of Riverside and Steve Berg, vice president for programs and policy for the National Alliance to End Homelessness. Tanya discussed how in 2018, Riverside, California ended homelessness for all veterans in the county by using a Housing First approach and orchestrating innovative cross-department coordination. Now the county is using their proven model to tackle chronic homelessness and…