Imagine a time when no parent has to choose between rent and buying a child’s winter coat, when no family has to sleep in a car, when no senior has to fear eviction, when no one with a disability who can live independently is consigned to an institution, when no veteran has to live on the streets, when poor families can choose where they want to live, when we no longer need emergency shelters.

Download the full 2014 conference program for workshop descriptions, presenters, key note speakers, and more.

2014 Conference Workshops

Getting Ready For Release of National Housing Trust Fund Dollars
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Funding for the National Housing Trust Fund Now and in the Future: Housing Finance Reform

United for Homes Campaign: Building Support for Mortgage Interest Deduction Reform to Fund the National Housing Trust Fund 

Affordable Care Act Protections: Implications for Housing Plus Services
- Click here to download the workshop presentation by Peggy Bailey 
- Click here to download the workshop presentation by Christine Campbell

Aligning Existing Resources with Greatest Needs
- Click here to download the workshop presenation by Katherine O'Regan
- Click here to download the workshop presentation by Mindy Woerter

Ask HUD: Mark Johnson on HUD’s Community Planning and Development Programs

Ask HUD: Sandra Henriquez on HUD’s Public and Indian Housing

Beyond the Spreadsheet: Using Data Visualization for Successful Advocacy
- Click here to download the workshop presentation by David Epstein
- Click here to download the workshop presentation by Graham MacDonald
- Click here to download the workshop presentation by Leigh Rosenberg

Building Local Partnerships: Collaborations to Address Housing Needs
- Click here to download the workshop presentation by Danielle Burs
- Click here to download the workshop presentation by Andrew Trueblood
- Click here to download the workshop presentation by Nancy Hooff 

Capital Magnet Fund: What Low Income Housing Advocates Need to Know

Dealing with Disaster: Working with HUD and FEMA in the Aftermath of Natural Disaster

Ending Veteran Homelessness: Meeting the 2015 Goal
- Click here to download the workshop presentation by Steve Berg
- Click here to download the workshop presentation by Melanie Zamora 

Engaging the Tenant Voter: Voterization and Emerging Trends in Voter Suppression 

Expanding Your Organization’s Advocacy Work: Establishing a 501(c)(4)
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Facing Budget Limitations: Strategies for Restoring and Increasing HUD Funding

Getting Ready for Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Final Rule

Housing Choice Vouchers: Restoring Sequester’s Loss and Expanding Assistance 
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Housing Models that Extremely Low Income Households Can Afford Without Section 8
- Click here to download the workshop presentation by Ann O'hara
- Click here to download the workshop presentation by Ginger Segel
- Click here to download the workshop presentation by Nancy Rase 

How to Have a Successful Lobby Meeting

Let’s Talk Housing: Working with the Media

Low Income Housing Tax Credit Issues and Innovations
- Click here to download the workshop presentation by Andrew Jakabovics
- Click here to download the workshop presentation by Garth Rieman
- Click here to download the workshop presentation by Matt Schwartz 

Maintaining Rights for Tenants after Foreclosure: The Campaign to Make the PTFA Permanent
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Manufactured Housing: National Profile and Local Efforts

Olmstead Implementation and the Section 811 Program

Organizing a Tenant Association
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Policy, Progress, and Obstacles for the Project-Based Section 8 Program
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Private Sector Solutions to Affordable Housing

Reclaiming Neighborhoods through State and Local Land Use Tools
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Securing Rural Housing Funding: Recent Challenges and Future Funding Potential

Still Out of Reach? Housing and the Minimum Wage Debate

Strategies for Local Tenant Victories

The Nation’s Public Housing: Funding, Policies, and the Future

The Public Housing Rental Assistance Demonstration, What Now?
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- Click here to download the workshop presentation by Matt Schwartz

Tools for Multifamily Preservation

Unique Challenges of Providing Affordable Housing on Indian Lands

Using TANF Dollars for Housing
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What’s New in the Final HOME Regulations?
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