Previous events

The Institute's four program-specific conferences will strengthen your understanding of program fundamentals and explore advanced techniques for administering the Low Income Housing Tax Credit, the HOME Investment Partnerships program, Mortgage Revenue Bonds, Federal Housing Administration and rural housing mortgage insurance, and HUD's Performance-Based Section 8 Contract Administration initiative.

The NMHC Annual Meeting is the largest gathering of the year where NMHC members come together to network with their colleagues. The 2010 Meeting will feature Newt Gingrich and Howard Dean. Plan to attend informative sessions by industry leaders with insight into what is happening on Capitol Hill and strategies for success in changing times.

Open to both NMHC members and non-members, this conference is targeted to senior apartment executives , acquisition and disposition specialists and market researchers. Topics will include:

• The Economic Outlook: What Will the Recovery Look and Feel Like?
• Capital Markets: Thawing But Still in Need of More Heat
• The Transactions Market: What’s Getting Done and How?
• Apartment Markets Around the Country
• Glimpsing the Future: Key Strategic Issues for Apartment Firms Now

"This event is open to researchers, public authorities, NGOs, companies, SMEs, national authorities that design, implement and evaluate environmental policies related to energy efficiency in buildings, the European Commission and member States representatives, associations of consumers, industrial associations, cleantech providers, as well as organizations aimed to achieve environmental benefits for the society at large. Participants should be involved in relevant projects or have good knowledge and links to energy efficiency and renewable energy issues related to the building sector so they can add value to the workshop discussions."

CARH’s Mid-Year Meeting will be held January 24-26, 2010, at the Four Seasons Hotel in San Francisco, California. This year’s theme is “Defining the Issues and Addressing the Challenges: Advancing Rural Housing in a Changing Environment.”

The commercial/multifamily finance industry has entered a new climate in which new strategies are being developed in order to take advantage of new opportunities. The CREF/Multifamily Housing Convention & Expo 2010, taking place Monday, February 1 through Thursday, February 4 at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, Nev., is the first must-attend event in the new year for every commercial/multifamily finance industry professional.

MBA's National Mortgage Servicing Conference & Expo is the premier gathering for servicing professionals. The 2010 conference, February 23-26, 2010 at the Manchester Grand Hyatt in San Diego, Calif., covers all the new developments in an evolving marketplace and connects you with thousands of your colleagues. Your attendance is vital to your success by helping you understand the latest regulatory and legislative changes and streamline operations.

The Midwinter Housing Finance Conference is an annual event that attracts top level executives, critical industry thinkers, government regulators, academics and economists for a few days of focus on our industry.

Promoting affordable housing remains an important pillar for the creation of development opportunities to low-income families in both emerging and developed economies. The recent global financial crisis constrained the availability of capital to invest in all kinds of housing and limited the supply of mortgage loans, especially to low-income households. This panel will try to conciliate the importance of funding affordable housing with the need to limit risk-taking in the financial markets.

The need for objective and analytical education in housing finance is growing rapidly. Sub-Saharan Africa is transforming its housing finance systems and both policy makers and private practitioners need cutting-edge information on innovation in the sector. This program addresses that need by providing an intensive period of education in policy innovations and institutional, financial and managerial aspects of housing finance, focused on the African continent.

In the space of a few short years, the World Urban Forum has turned into the world's premier conference on cities. The Forum was established by the United Nations to examine one of the most pressing problems facing the world today: rapid urbanization and its impact on communities, cities, economies, climate change and policies.

With half of humanity already living in towns and cities, it is projected that in the next 50 years, two-thirds of us will be living in towns and cities. A major challenge is to minimize burgeoning poverty in cities, improve access of the urban poor to basic facilities such as shelter, clean water and sanitation and to achieve environmentally friendly, sustainable urban growth and development.

MBA’s National Policy Conference 2010 gives you the opportunity to speak directly to lawmakers about what you do in your community as well as the practical effect proposed changes may have on your business and the industry. This year’s conference brings together key officials, cabinet members and special guest speakers to address these critical issues. This discussion needs your perspective and business interests.

MBA's National Technology in Mortgage Banking Conference & Expo gives you the tools, skills and knowledge to leverage technology to help you work smarter and faster in today's challenging climate. By attending this specialized conference, you are sure to network with colleagues across the real estate industry and learn how they are using technological solutions and applications to better their bottom lines.

MBA's Legal Issues and Regulatory Compliance Conference 2010 is the premier place to learn about all the legal and regulatory developments facing the industry. In this time of enormous change, this is a "must-attend" conference on mortgage related legal and regulatory issues. Topics will be updated based on new or emerging challenges at the time of the conference.

Thought-provoking and insightful presentations, advice-packed seminars, a wealth of networking and socialising events to catch up with your industry colleagues, and a busy business exhibition.

IHS and UN-HABITAT have joined forces in a new course at IHS to battle Climate Change effects on cities. The course aims to answer pressing questions. What are the effects of Climate Change on your city? What can your city do about Climate Change? And how can you enable your city to design appropriate climate actions? To assist cities world-wide to answer these questions and provide instruments to deal with climate changes the three week course discusses concrete management tools for climate change.

The global financial crisis has changed the world. High-risk housing finance schemes were one of the main triggers of this crisis.

The Joint Congress of UNECE and EFBS on "Housing Finance beyond Subprime" will be highlighting the effects of the worldwide crisis on the housing markets of various European counties. The congress will discuss ways and means of establishing and maintaining reliable forms of housing finance and examine housing finance plans that have proved to be robust during the crisis. Also on the congress agenda: future requirements for housing finance and we will be looking at how the theme of climate protection is affecting housing construction. The congress will also provide ample opportunities for the international experts to meet and exchange their views outside the conference room.

The United States has managed to survive the bursting of a giant real estate bubble. Although many are still trying to digest the losses and are struggling with the aftermath, now is the time, before the memories start to fade, to figure out how to prevent the next bubble, not just fight the battles of the last one. One essential part of this task is to add countercyclical factors to credit markets. How could this be done? How can the overoptimistic expansion of debt, leverage, and risk, including debt promoted by the government, as mortgages were, be addressed? Would the financial reform legislation currently before Congress prevent a new bubble? Given the record of repeated overexpansions followed by crises throughout financial history, can the next bubble actually be prevented? These and related issues will be addressed by expert panelists: Representative Bill Foster (D-Ill.), member of the House Financial Services Committee; Jay Brinkmann, chief economist of the Mortgage Bankers Association; AEI visiting scholar John H. Makin; and Mark Zandi, chief economist of Moody’s Economy.com. AEI resident fellow Alex J. Pollock will moderate.

NCSHA's annual Housing Credit Conference is the industry event of the year. Only NCSHA brings leaders and top development and monitoring staff from the state Housing Credit allocating agencies together with government officials, developers, lenders, syndicators, investors, attorneys, accountants, property managers, compliance experts, owners, and nonprofits. Across more than 30 sessions, in the Marketplace Tradeshow, and at several networking events, the heavy hitters of the industry and their agency partners will deliver the latest news on how to make the Housing Credit work in these unprecedented times