National Housing Conference

At the National Housing Conference (NHC), we believe housing is the foundation of economic security. That principle was at the center of a recent webinar, “Celebrating 250: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Homeownership”, hosted by NHC in partnership with NeighborWorks® America, which explored how housing counseling, financial education, and cross-sector partnerships can exp...

Representative Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.) called the bill “probably the most sweeping changes in HUD regulations in a quarter of a century, perhaps ever; and what we have done is we have remodeled, or refashioned, or recast, or redesigned many of the programs impacting HUD.” It passed both the House and Senate overwhelmingly and became law after the President signed it. But he w...

In this week’s episode, we’re joined by Theresa Finney Dumais, President and CEO of Stewards of Affordable Housing for the Future (SAHF), a national collaborative of nonprofit affordable housing providers that owns and operates more than 160,000 affordable rental homes across the country. Throughout her career spanning affordable housing development, Capitol Hill, housing fin...

In this week’s episode, we’re joined by Teresa Bryce Bazemore, a nationally respected housing finance leader whose more than 35-year career has spanned mortgage banking, mortgage insurance, financial services, corporate governance, and risk management. From leading major financial institutions through periods of unprecedented market disruption to serving on the boards of some...

Housing affordability has become one of the defining economic challenges facing communities across the country. At its core is a persistent mismatch between the housing available on the market and what many families can afford. When available housing stock does not match housing needs across communities, the effects are manifold: constrained family budgets, employers’ difficu...