Join Abt and partners at the 2023 National Council of State Housing Agencies (NCSHA) Annual Conference & Showplace in Boston, October 14-17. This event brings together housing finance agencies to explore solutions to the affordable housing community’s toughest, fast-moving challenges.
Abt’s Dr. Adam Travis will co-present in the following session:
Tuesday, October 17, 2023
10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. ET
Enhancing Affordable Housing’s Energy Efficiency and Resiliency
Explore climate-change threats, energy-efficiency and resiliency strategies, and green retrofit opportunities in the affordable housing portfolio. Learn about opportunities to leverage HFA affordable housing program funding with energy funding and tax incentives in the Inflation Reduction Act.
DISCUSSION LEADER
Libby Rohlfing, Chief Strategy Officer. New York City Housing Development Corporation
SPEAKERS
Adam Travis, Ph.D., Associate, Abt Global
Josh Cohen, President of Development, Beacon Communities LLC
Leah Whiteside, Director of Acquisitions & Preservation, The Community Builders, Inc.
Additional Resources
Filling Funding Gaps: How State Agencies Are Moving to Meet a Growing Threat to Affordable Housing
On behalf of NCSHA, Abt studied how 11 state agencies are impacted by—and handling—potentially catastrophic rising costs on affordable housing projects.
Spotlight On: The Intersection of Climate and Housing Insecurity
Abt Global is on the forefront of developing solutions that address climate change and housing and is a trusted partner of HUD and EPA and hundreds of communities across the U.S.
Helping Design More Equitable and Impactful Housing Systems and Solutions
The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has many housing and community development programs. HUD created the Community Compass program to enable HUD grantees and public housing agencies, and tribes to receive technical assistance (TA) to…
Developing LocalHousingSolutions.org
Households around the U.S. face growing housing affordability challenges. While there are important roles for the federal and state governments to play in addressing this problem, many of the most critical policy solutions can only be adopted at the…
Fair Housing Training and Technical Assistance
In 2015, HUD rolled out the Assessment of Fair Housing which included a new rigorous and mandatory process for data analysis, mapping, and strategy development to help grantees make meaningful change and affirmatively further fair housing (AFFH). Abt…
Examining Effects of Small Area Fair Market Rent on the Housing Choice Voucher Program
Housing Choice Vouchers let residents choose housing units that meet rent and quality guidelines. Using a single metropolitan-wide standard to set the maximum subsidy for voucher holders can limit recipients’ access to neighborhoods with high-performing…
Moving to Work: Incentivizing Landlords in the Housing Choice Voucher Program
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program provides voucher subsidies that enables low-income households to select the type of housing and location that meets their needs. However, the HCV program…