FHC Annual Conference 2011 - Welcome

On behalf of the Florida Housing Coalition, we invite you to join us at the 24th Annual Conference: Florida's Premier Statewide Affordable Housing Training and Technical Assistance Event, at the exquisite Rosen Shingle Creek Resort and Golf Club in Orlando, Florida. Our theme this year is "Housing = Jobs." Considering our current housing market, this truly is a new day for housing. We must re-evaluate our housing strategies to effectively assist Floridians in obtaining and sustaining affordable housing. With that in mind we are offering four exciting tracks:

  • Neighborhood Stabilization in Florida Recovery and Reinvestment - Progress overview; new HUD guidance; upcoming tasks and milestones; and  training for program design;
  • Affordable Green Housing - Integrating design; establishing initiatives and policies; and creating effective partnerships;
  • Preservation - From HUD to USDA: Focus on identifying and acquiring existing assisted rental housing; and
  • Foreclosure Prevention - Hardest-Hit  Program update; mediation training; and other foreclosure alternatives.

In addition to the four training workshops within each track, we will have training sessions on the nuts and bots of housing finance and development; housing finance and development for the expert; case studies and success stories; legislative advocacy; community organizing; and new tools for accessing funding opportunities.


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As part of our opening day of the conference, we ask that you join us Monday morning for our State of the State address featuring Ed Jennings, Regional Administrator for HUD, and Steve Auger, Executive Director of the Florida Housing Finance Corporation and an invitation will be extended to the Executive Director of the new Department of Economic Opportunity .

 

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In addition to the State of the State, we will host our Public Policy Plenary, which will focus on this key question: Why isn't the legislature appropriating housing trust fund money for housing? The plenary will be moderated by Mark Hendrickson and panelist include: XXX, professor of economics at XXX; XXX, xxxx; and XXX, XXX.

We will have a panel of national and state experts examining the state of Florida's real property and labor markets, state fiscal policies, economics, policy, and political considerations to help us understand the answer to this question. With a better understanding of why our Housing= Jobs message has not won the day for us, we intend to chart a more successful course, so that housing monies will indeed be appropriated for housing in the future.

Housing = Jobs.  That's how the Sadowski Affordable Housing Act got passed in 1992.   Florida's construction industry was in a slump.  Local governments needed funds to incentivize the private sector; this was the way to implement the housing element of the comprehensive plans and provide for housing everyone, including those hardest to house, such as the very lowest of the paid workforce like farmworkers and those who may no longer be able to work such as the elderly and disabled. 

The Sadowski Act created a dedicated revenue source for affordable housing in Florida and over the first decade of its implementation earned acclaim as the national model for creative housing programs that stood the tests of accountability, productivity, and a 6:1 return on public sector investment. So when a Governor, House, and Senate agreed to make "Jobs, job number one" and "Get to Work", housing advocates were justifiably optimistic that the housing trust fund monies might be appropriated for housing-putting some 15,000 Floridians to work while infusing over $1.4 billion in economic activity.  But the 2011 session was the first time since the inception of the Act in 1992 that not a penny of the Sadowski Housing Trust Funds was appropriated for housing.

This is sure to be the number one policy issue for nearly all of the more than 600 housing professionals who attend the Florida Housing Coalition's Statewide Annual Conference.  We look forward to your participation.

After lunch, participants will have the opportunity to network at one of six partner/caucus meetings. In addition, we will continue to host the Utility Companies and Green Partners Caucus and the FUNDRAISING CAUCUS, (Include description). Our Conference Reception is Monday evening with music, fun and great food.

On Tuesday, you'll benefit from the expertise shared during our instructional trainings. During lunch, you're sure to enjoy our keynote speaker Alan Mallach.

Alan MallaAlan Mallachch, Center for Community Progress is a nationally recognized advocate and scholar on housing, land use,  community and economic development. Mallach is a senior fellow at the Center for Community Progress and teaches in the graduate city planning program at Pratt Institute in New York City. In addition, he is an author of A Decent Home: Planning, Building and Preserving Affordable Housing and Bringing Buildings Back: From Vacant Properties to Community Assets. Mallach is also a senior fellow at the Metropolitan Policy Program of The Brookings Institution, a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia and a member of the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Certified Planners.

We will close the day with our Community Land Trust Networking Caucus for those wishing to share ideas and achievement strategies with others involved with CLT implementation in Florida, as well as the Florida Non-Profit Housing Advocates Network, which provide a forum for you to provide input on legislative and policy issues tyou believe will advance opportunities for nonprofit housing providers' success.

On Wednesday, we will host our annual SHIP and NSP Roundtables. In addition, E3 Building Sciences is hosting two Green Course Credit workshops: Energy-Efficient Building Practices, 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. for 2 CEUs and Single Family Housing and LEED, 11:00 a.m. - Noon for 1 CEU.  We also promise time-honored favorites, such as our Raffle and traditional Housing Expo.

 

PDF of Foreclosure Prevention Track and Caucus Flyer
Foreclosure Prevention Caucus Flyer

 

PDF of NSP Track Flyer
NSPTrack and
Roundtable Flyer

 

PDF of Fundraising Caucus Flyer
Fundraising Caucus Flyer


The Coalition's Annual Conference is Florida's premier training and networking opportunity for affordable housing professionals. Please take full advantage of this once-a-year opportunity by registering today! We encourage you to bring additional staff members and community advocates who are bound to benefit from the professional development opportunities available by some of the industry's leading experts.

We look forward to seeing you at the conference September 26-28 in Orlando.