Pathways to Homeownership: A Showcase of Strategies to Open Doors
In celebration of National Homeownership Month, the National Housing Conference and NeighborWorks America spotlighted practitioners working on the ground to assist low- and moderate-income households achieve sustainable homeownership. This webinar featured an opening fireside chat with David Dworkin, president and CEO of NHC, and Marietta Rodriguez, president and CEO of NeighborWorks America, about […]
Adaptive Reuse in Post-Pandemic Development
Emerging from the pandemic, city leaders, planners, and community stakeholders across the nation are wrestling with what post-pandemic life will look like in their neighborhoods. The pandemic economy has created an unprecedented opportunity to address historic housing supply shortages through adaptive reuse of existing structures into affordable housing. Former commercial, retail, and office […]
Fair Housing Forum: Increasing Fair Access to Credit
The Black Homeownership Collaborative's first Fair Housing Forum on Increasing Fair Access to Credit was held on April 19, 2022. This convening built on last year's launch of the Collaborative to explore federal efforts to increase access to quality credit in communities of color. The Forum featured remarks from Acting Comptroller of the Currency […]
Solutions for Housing Communications
On Wednesday, March 30th we hosted our annual Solutions for Housing Communications convening at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. This year's focus was on developing communications strategies to help housers connect with the people and communities we serve. Keynote speaker Marc Morial, President, and CEO of the National Urban League encouraged housers to […]
Federal Funding, Local Impact: Shared Equity as a Housing Solution
Many communities facing dramatic losses of affordable market rate housing, increasing land costs, and rising costs of new construction are having to consider alternative strategies to keep their communities affordable to live. Shared equity models of housing, including community land trusts, housing cooperatives, and resident-owned manufactured housing, have emerged as a viable approach […]
Bridging the Gap Between Health and Housing
In this first of a series of webinars sponsored by NeighborWorks America, NHC and NeighborWorks explored the intersection of health and housing and the role it can play in sustainable community development. Speakers provided an overview of what healthy housing truly means beyond the typical subjects of environmental hazards, and detailed best practices for breaking […]
Solutions for Affordable Housing 2021
On November 17th the National Housing Conference will host its Solutions for Affordable Housing online convening to explore policy solutions to address the nation’s most pressing housing challenges. The event will feature influential experts in housing, lending, homelessness, community development, as well as federal, state, and local government officials. Sessions will include the successes and lessons learned […]
Tech & Housing Online Symposium
OnlineKeynote speaker Deputy Commerce Sec. Don Graves Panel: Innovations in Production This panel explored innovations in housing production, including traditional homebuilding, manufactured housing and emerging green technologies as well as commercial credit availability. Panelists spoke to the issue of supply in the affordable housing market and methods of addressing supply and demand […]
Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the future of American homeownership
The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) announced on Tuesday that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will submit plans by the end of this year to reduce racial disparities in housing finance. FHFA’s announcement makes it clear that these plans must include serious measures to provide for equity in housing finance, potentially changing the focus and […]
Why It’s Time to Unlock America’s Single-Family Green Mortgage Market
In the face of an intensifying climate crisis, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are uniquely positioned to promote sustainable, resilient housing across the country. The Enterprises have already created several programs to accelerate production of green multifamily projects, and now the Federal Housing Finance Agency has the opportunity to expand that success to the single-family […]