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Promoting Affordable Housing in the United States

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Day / Time Monday, June 19th / 14:00 - 16:00


Event Description
This presentation will focus on the experience of the many diverse players in the production process. It will seek to tell the story of private sector leadership in facing this problem, especially the organization and use of local business associations to help tackle the problem, and the creation of public-private partnerships essential to fashioning special instruments of finance. It will use examples of the transformation of major, blighted public housing projects into successful mixed-income communities.


Session Language

English


Speakers

Al Mansell, NAR Past President

Alven Lam of HUD, and Roger Williams of Annie E. Casey Foundation

Richard Hanson of Mesa Development, LLC and James Miller of Park Boulevard


Host Organization
National Association of Realtors
This session is one of a series of 12 networking sessions organized by the International Housing Coalition (IHC) on important housing issues.

Host Organization Description
The National Association of Realtors (NAR) is a professional association of U.S. real estate practitioners. It currently has 1.2 million individual members. NAR maintains cooperative working relationships pursuant to formal agreements with some 66 national real estate associations in 53 countries around the world. NAR has a long association with fair housing and the affordable housing issue. It is a Founding Sponsor of the International Housing Coalition (IHC) and has a been involved in international human settlements and housing issues for more than thirty years.


Website

www.realtor.org

www.cre.org

www.aecf.org


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Promoting Affordable Housing in the United States

National Association of Realtors, Counsellors of Real Estate, Annie E. Casey Foundation, Parkview Associates LLC

Monday, June 19, 2:00-4:00 p.m.

Key Highlights

  1. Estimated no of participants : 60
  2. Stakeholder group representation at the event : NGOs, govt officials, developers
  3. What were the expected objectives : Describe policy environment in the US that promotes affordable housing, and showcase the ways the private sector promotes affordable housing, with a detailed discussion of two actual developments that include affordable housing and their financing techniques.
  4. What did the networking event achieve: Good discussion of intricacies of affordable housing approvals, programs, financing, and other issues.

2. What were the core issues identified in your event as they relate to the theme and sub-themes of WUFIII? The event illustrated techniques for turning affordable housing ideas into actual affordable housing projects within the context of US government programs and private initiatives. Related directly to main theme and to sub-theme 1.

3. What were the main points raised by panellists and participants in relation to these different issues? What new ideas have been generated as a result of the discussion? Main focus of discussion was on the necessity for entrepreneurship and flexibility as to financing, good relations with municipal authorities, and great persistence. These are not new ideas, but the discussion dressed these ideas in concrete examples.

4. What process steps have been identified in your event that could help turn ideas into operational reality? One important process step emphasized by developers of housing that replaces distressed public housing is to involve tenants early and systematically in the planning process, and to keep them advised of plans.

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