All session proposals should fall into one of the topic categories defined below.
Commissioners: The Commissioners’ topic focuses on enhancing the commissioner’s understanding of their role and responsibilities related to advocacy, community leadership, new housing legislation/regulation, and ethical conduct of their agency.
Community Development: The Community Development topic focuses on economic development, mixed-use development, neighborhood revitalization, and state and local agencies (in terms of “partnerships with” as well as “work undertaken by”). Also including CD finance basics of evaluating and repositioning portfolio in the context of community/market, various financing vehicles/mechanisms, and sophisticated mixed finance successes and best practices (putting the deal together).
Public Housing: The Public Housing topic focuses on program administration, innovative development strategies, procurements, capital planning, resident services and programming, local economic development, neighborhood economic impact, self-sufficiency, maintenance operations, new technology, and legislative and regulatory matters.
Section 8/HCV: The Section 8/HCV topic focuses on resourceful and innovative program management through agencies’ mandatory and discretionary authority and implementation of new laws and regulations.
Repositioning: The Repositioning topic focuses on resourceful and innovative decision making at all stages of the RAD program.
Moving to Work: The Moving to Work (MTW) topic focuses on the operational and organizational processes of current and future MTW agencies.
Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS) Program: The FSS topic focuses on anything related to the FSS program – the program that enables HUD-assisted families to increase their earned income and reduce their dependency on welfare assistance and rental subsidies.
Organizational Management: The Organizational Management topic focuses on creative ways to meet the agency’s performance goals and retain talented and loyal staff in today’s environment of reduced resources and funding.
International: The International topic focuses on housing and community development issues/practices outside of the United States.
Topic descriptions are meant to serve as guidelines to the conference’s primary content, but are not meant to exclude relevant related content.