Group Meets With HUD Secretary on HOPE VI/Mixed-Finance Issues

By Caitlin Jones & A. J. Johnson
December 11, 2008 1 min read

Representatives of the HOPE VI Working Group of the National Housing & Rehabilitation Association (NH&RA), a multifamily housing trade group, met with HUD Secretary Steven Preston on 11/10/08 to discuss operational and asset management issues with projects funded under HUD’s mixed-finance and HOPE VI public housing redevelopment programs. The Working Group delegation presented a recommendation that HUD create a “mixed-finance operations coordinator” at HUD Headquarters. NH&RA suggested that a central resource on operational issues, working in partnership with HUD’s Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public Housing Investments, would benefit private-sector participants, public housing authorities, and help assure HUD of the continued viability of completed HOPE VI and mixed-finance properties. For information on the HOPE VI Working Group, contact NH&RA Associate Director Thom Amdur, 202-939-1753, [email protected].

Breaking Ground

Jennifer Leimaile Ho, Minnesota Housing Commissioner and Incoming Chair of National Council of State Housing Agencies

Pamela Martineau • December 1, 2024 10 min read

Earlier this fall, Jennifer Leimaile Ho was elected chair of the National Council of State Housing Agencies’ (NCSHA) 2025 Board of Directors. Ho is the Commissioner of Minnesota Housing, having been appointed by Governor Tim Walz in January 2019 and reappointed in 2023.

“Business as Usual”

Leaders in Equity Express Optimism Despite an Uncertain Future

Abram Mamet • December 1, 2024 9 min read

Any outside observer may assume some unease amongst the low-income housing industry. Buffeted on the one hand by residual stressors from the COVID-19 pandemic and on the other by the uncertain prospects of an incoming federal administration keen on cutting spending and shrinking government programs, the affordable housing landscape is experiencing an inflection point.

NCSHA Recognizes Stand-Out Affordable Housing Programs and Initiatives

Pamela Martineau • December 1, 2024 7 min read

This fall, the National Council of State Housing Agencies (NCSHA) recognized 17 programs offered by state housing finance agencies across the nation that creatively developed tools to tackle their communities’ affordable housing challenges.