Morning Plenary Sessions
- FY12 Budget Chart (CHAPA)
- FY12 Budget Chart (NLIHC)
- Summary of FY12 Administrative Provisions (CHAPA)
- FY12 Budget Analysis (CBPP)
- FY12 Rural Housing Services Budget (HAC)
- Barbara Sard Powerpoint Presentation
- Aligning Affordable Rental Housing Policy and Compliance (White House Rental Policy Working Group)
- Affordable Housing Trust Fund, Current Funding Avenues (NLIHC)
- Affordable Housing in Rural New England, 2011 (New England Housing Network)
- HUD and Rural Programs (New England Housing Network)
- How the Across-the-Board Cuts in the Budget Control Act Will Work (CBPP)
Morning Workshops
1. Beyond Appropriations: Potential Sweeping Changes in Housing Policy
- ACTION web site (Enterprise Communities)
- Press Release on the HARP Changes
- Analysis of HARP by Mark Zandi
- White Paper on Multifamily Mortgage Finance Reform (Recap Advisors/NHC)
- NHC’s Principles for Supporting Multifamily Finance
- Study on LIHTC (Reznick Group)
GSE Reform
- Treasury/Administration Proposal (Feb 2011) Press release and full proposal
- Overview piece on legislative activities since Treasury proposal/analysis and predictions/focus on affordable housing
- Center for American Progress Proposal (January 2011)
- National Groups “Principles for Restoring Stability to the Nation’s Housing Markets” March 2011 sign-on letter
- National Multi Housing Council (NMHC) – Multifamily Perspective
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S.1834 (Corker bill) - Residential Mortgage Market Privatization and Standardization Act of 2011- Introduced November 9, 2011 by Senator Robert Corker (R-Tenn). It would phase out GSEs over 10 years by reducing their guarantee (in year 1, they could only guarantee 90% of a bond, in year 2, no more than 80% ,etc. (the limit would fall by at least 10% each year with FHFA setting the new limits) and not replace them.
- Press release (links to both summary and full text of bill)
- Summary
- Full text
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HR 1859 – Housing Finance Reform Act of 2011 - introduced May 12, 2011 by House Financial Services Committee members John Campbell (R-CA) and Gary Peters (D-MI). Would wind down Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and replace with new federally-chartered ”housing finance guaranty associations”
- Bill text
- Link to analysis (upper right corner PDF)
2. Section 8 Voucher Program
- Memo on Minimum Rents (CBPP)
- Section 8 Savings Act (SESA)
- First year Compass FSS evaluation (Brandeis Institute on Assets and Social Policy)
- The Business Case for FSS (Compass Working Capital)
- Powerpoint Presentation by Sherry Riva, Compass Working Capital
3. How Public Housing Authorities Are Meeting the New Reality
- Summary of Rental Assistance Demonstration (CHAPA)
- 2011 Study on Capital Needs in Public Housing (HUD)
- Powerpoint presentation on Choice Neighborhoods by Steve O’Rourke
4. The Importance of Housing Counseling
- Powerpoint presentation by Donna Taglianetti, Co-Opportunity
- Housing Counseling Fact Sheet
- State of the Housing Counseling Industry – 2008 Report, prepared by Abt Associates for HUD, September 2008
- Impacts of Homeownership Education and Counseling on Homebuyer Purchasing Power: Summary of Findings by Eric Hangen and Jeffrey Lubell, November 2007, Center for Housing Policy
- “Do financial counseling mandates improve mortgage choice and performance? Evidence from a natural experiment,” Sumit Agarwal, Gene Amromin, Itzhak Ben-David, Souphala Chomsisengphet and Douglas D. Evanoff, March 2009
- Homeownership Counseling: Do We Know What Works?, J. Michael Collins and Collin O'Rourke, Research Institute for Housing America
- Lands In Trust, Homes That Last (John Emmeus Davis)
- National Foreclosure Mitigation Counseling Program Evaluation, Preliminary Analysis of Program Effects, November 2009 (Urban Institute)
5. Energy Efficiency Policy and Practice
- Powerpoint pressentation by Alma Balonon-Rosen, Enterprise
- Policy Recommendations on Energy Efficiency, Sustainable Housing, and Smart Growth, 2011 (New England Housing Network)
- Green Communities Web Site (Enterprise Community Partners)
- Green Communities Criteria (Enterprise Community Partners)
- Green Communities Resource Guide (Enterprise Community Partners)
- HUD Public Housing Environmental and Conservation Clearinghouse
- HUD Public Housing Energy Conservation Clearinghouse
- HUD Notice 2009-43 encouraging use of renewable energy and green construction practices in public housing
- Quantifying Energy Efficiency in Multifamily Rental Housing. “Evidence Matters”, HUD Summer 2011
- FHA/Fannie Mae “Green Refinance Plus” Program for Affordable Rental Housing Energy Retrofits (2011)
- HUD Multifamily Energy Innovation Fund
Afternoon Workshops
1. Advocacy on the Federal Budget
2011 Advocates Guide (NLIHC)
2. Supportive Housing for Homeless Veterans
- Canal Street Veterans' Housing Profile, Winooski, VT
- Canal Street Overview Document
- Overview report on Veterans and Homelessness (2011) – Congressional Research Service
- National Alliance to End Homelessness (NAEH) website on veterans’ homelessness
- NAEH Review of 2010 Data on veterans’ homelessness
- Evaluations of VASH (HUD vouchers for homeless veterans)
- HUD VASH listserv
3. Sustainable Communities
- HUD Office of Housing and Sustainable Communities
- Announcement of FY11 Grant Awards
- Supporting Sustainable Rural Communities (Partnership for Sustainable Communities)
4. Foreclosures and Neighborhood Stabilization
- Lost Ground, 2011 (Center for Responsible Lending)
- Resilience in the Face of Foreclosures (National League of Cities)
- Meeting the Challenge of Distressed Property Investors in America’s Neighborhoods, Allan Mallach, 2010
- REO and Vacant Properties: Strategies for Neighborhood Stabilization, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and Cleveland, 2010
- Transforming Foreclosed Properties into Community Assets, Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy, 2009
5. Housing for Elders and People with Disabilities
- TAC Resource Center on Supportive Housing
- Summary of Section 811 Legislation (TAC)
- Summary of Section 202 Legislation (CHAPA)
- Congressional Research Service Report on Section 202
- Powerpoint presentation by Ann O’Hara