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12/11/2008 - Best Practices in Supportive Housing and Employment: Advocating for Employment Services Funding
Resources for funding community- and housing-based employment initiatives are hard to come by. Federal funding under the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) is one source of state and local employment and training funding. However, WIA funding alone will rarely be effective for disadvantaged populations (e.g., the homeless and formerly homeless) unless you take local action to make your community’s Workforce Investment Board accountable for serving these groups. Learn how to advocate for this commitment from your local WIB and also how to expand your horizons beyond WIA, to tap into other funding sources and enhance mainstream workforce partnerships.
9/9/2008 - Year 15: Nonprofit Transfer Strategies for Expiring LIHTC Properties
Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) properties are reaching the end of the 15 year LIHTC compliance period, and are eligible for sale to their nonprofit sponsors. Year 11 in the life of a tax credit deal is an ideal time to begin planning and taking action. In this session we discuss disposition strategies for the nonprofit sponsor, and review partnership provisions including rights of first refusal, purchase options, exit taxes, and preservation of affordability.
9/5/2008 - Analysis of the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008, Part II
Part II of this two-part session provides a brief overview of the new law’s nearly two-dozen provisions modernizing the Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) and tax-exempt housing bond programs. Also discover how the new law affects multifamily HUD and USDA housing programs when combined with LIHTC. Learn how these changes will make it easier and financially more feasible to finance a wider type of affordable housing developments.
9/4/2008 - Analysis of the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008, Part I
Part I of this two-part session provides a brief overview of the new law’s provisions on the nearly $4 billion in emergency community stabilization funding, as well as the permanent creation of the capital magnet and housing trust funds for affordable housing development. Learn how these new resources will help affordable housing and community development organizations stabilize neighborhoods heavily impacted by foreclosure, as well as address long-standing affordable housing needs.
8/28/2008 - Green Communities Grants: General Technical Questions
In this event, Green Communities staff field general technical questions for project teams planning to apply to Enterprise for Green Communities grant funding. This is an open question and answer session.
8/27/2008 - Green Communities: The Basics of Building Science
Both new and existing affordable homes can realize energy and water savings, improved air quality, and occupant comfort through the application of easily understood building science concepts. Our experts describe the science behind optimizing residential building performance. This session focuses on the effects of heat, air and moisture on the building envelope and its related components. This session is geared to beginners and is ideal for an introduction or refresher course on building science.
8/14/2008 - Balancing Act: Whether and How to Grow Your CDC
Join us for an overview of the external environment challenges community development corporations (CDCs) currently face from declining federal funds to increased competition to shifting demographics. Some of the keys to being a large, successful CDC as well as some of the pitfalls are discussed, and recommendations are given as to how funders and supporters can help move the field forward.
8/5/2008 - Green Communities Grant Application Process
Green Communities offers grants to help cover the costs of designing, planning and implementing green components into affordable housing developments, as well as tracking their costs and benefits. In this event, we review in detail the 2008 grant application process for Green Communities.
6/17/2008 - Best Practices in Supportive Housing and Employment: The Employer's Perspective
To truly be successful, an employment program for tenants of supportive housing must learn to cultivate positive relationships with employers. Yet making the business case for hiring individuals with many (perceived or actual) barriers to employment can be difficult and intimidating. However, there is a strong business case to be made for why employers should hire your residents – and it really works. Hear from an acclaimed employment placement agency that works with employers to find jobs for ”hard to place” individuals.
6/3/2008 - Green Communities: Indoor and Outdoor Water Conservation
Learn about cost-effective strategies and technologies to improve water efficiency of interior fixtures and fittings, re-use water for plumbing applications and landscaping, and manage stormwater on-site. In the affordable housing sector, this can mean significant cost savings for residents in the form of lower water and sewer bills.
4/29/2008 - Incentive Payments to Increase the Affordable Housing Supply: A Strategy for Increasing Regional Equity
Commonly referred to as "40R," Smart Growth Zoning legislation provides a community between $10,000 and $600,000 in unrestricted funds up front, plus an additional $3,000 for every dwelling unit that gets built. In this session we hear about the Massachusetts experience with 40R from three different perspectives.
4/24/2008 - Best Practices in Supportive Housing and Employment: Temporary and Transitional Employment
Temporary and transitional jobs programs have proven to be effective in moving hard-to-employ individuals into the workplace. Hear an overview of program models; learn about connecting with organizations that provide these models; learn about what it takes to start, support, or expand a temporary staffing business; and hear from the staff of a successful nonprofit temporary staffing business.
3/27/2008 - Preserving Affordable Housing: A Strategy for Promoting Regional Equity
Join us as we discuss the lack of rental housing affordable to lower income Americans. Presenters include Michael Bodaken of the National Housing Trust, the only national nonprofit engaged in housing preservation through real estate development, lending and public policy initiatives, and David Bowers and Monica Warren-Jones of Enterprise.
3/20/2008 - Green Communities Criteria 2008
Green Communities is the first national green building program developed for affordable housing. The technical criteria is the foundation of the program and focuses on the use of environmentally sustainable materials, reduction of negative environmental impacts and increased energy efficiency. Join us for a discussion of an updated (2008) version of the technical criteria.
3/13/2008 - Tax Increment Financing for Affordable Housing: A Tool for Promoting Regional Equity.
Join us and Michael Anderson of the Community Development Network, as he describes the reasons behind the push for a Tax Increment Financing (TIF) set-aside for affordable housing, how it made it through City Hall (and could make it through yours), and what it will mean for the citizens of the Portland, Oregon metro area.
3/5/2008 - Green Communities Grant Application Process
Green Communities offers grants to help cover the costs of designing, planning and implementing green components into affordable housing developments, as well as tracking their costs and benefits. In this event, we review in detail the 2008 grant application process for Green Communities.
2/27/2008 - Inclusionary Zoning: A Tool for Promoting Regional Equity
Learn about how Inclusionary Zoning can be used as a tool to make housing affordable in city centers and suburban regional centers. View presentations from seasoned IZ programs in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and La Plata County, Colorado.
2/14/2008 - Transit-Oriented Development: A Tool for Promoting Regional Equity
Join us to learn what some cities and regions have done to overcome considerable barriers to affordable housing in their TOD projects, including planning and zoning, land assembly, land speculation, parking requirements, and opposition to density.
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