2000 Best Practice Symposium

	Overview of HUD’s 2001 Budget
	Facilitator:	Doug Kantor, Acting Deputy Chief of Staff for Programs, HUD
	Room: Hemisphere Room
	Presenter:	David Gibbons, Assistant Chief Financial Officer for Budget, HUD
		This session will look at HUD’s budget priorities for fiscal year 2001 and review the status of the budget as it makes its way through the legislative process.
	HUD’s Five-Year Strategic Plan Workshop An Open Discussion with Stakeholders
	Facilitator:	Nancy Kirshner-Rodriguez, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Integovermental Relations Frank Davis, Director, Office of Departmental Operations and Coordination, HUD
	Room: Thoroughbred Room
		The Department of Housing and Urban Development is developing its 6-year strategic plan for FY2001 - FY2006. The strategic plan is a requirement of the Government Performance Results Act, which is meant to turn government agencies into results-oriented organizations. As part of developing its strategic plan, HUD is looking for input from stakeholders on where it should focus resources over the long-term and how to measure successes in achieving its strategic goals. This consultation will focus not only on HUD’s long-term vision, but on performance reporting, including: what measurements would indicate success in the Department’s mission and how performance measurement can facilitate program assessment in light of HUD’s strategic goals and objectives. This consultation will include discussion of the Department’s broad strategic goals and objectives as well as the national indicators to be tracked from year to year.
Community Development Track
	Leveraging and Partnerships in Revitalization Efforts
	Facilitator:	Barbara Bostick-Hunt, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Community Empowerment
	Room: Map Room
	Presenters:	Diane Bell, President/CEO, Empower Baltimore Management Corporation, MD Mark Platts, Director of Neighborhood Planning, District of Columbia Government (TBD) Private Sector/Non-Profit Partner
		This session will focus on how distressed communities may successfully develop partnerships and leverage resources in revitalization efforts. The panelists represent a variety of perspectives and will discuss the strategies they have used to facilitate community and local partnerships and to leverage federal and other resources. The panelists will focus on how these revitalization tools have been effectively utilized through the Empowerment Zone/Enterprise Community Initiative; the obstacles to overcome and the keys to success in establishing sustainable community and local partnerships; attracting public and private sector resources to distressed communities; and enhancing private sector and non-profit participation in revitalization efforts.
	Involving Citizens in Program Planning and Implementation
	Facilitator:	Nadab Bynum, Director, Field Management Division, HUD
	Room: Caucus Room
	Presenters:	Charlotte Caplan, City of Asheville Consolidated Strategic Housing and Community Development Plan, NC Katherine Trimnal, Columbia Council of Neighborhoods, SC Elona Carolyn Davis, Columbia, SC Stella Taylor, CPD Representative
		Learn how to effectively involve citizens in program planning, development and implementation.
	Promoting Youth Development and Self Sufficiency
	Facilitator:	Ken Williams, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Grant Programs, HUD
	Room: Dupont
	Presenters:	Glenda Kirkland, Brothers with Brothers: Isiah House Residential Program for Adolescent Boys, East Orange, NJ Tim Cross, Youthbuild USA Duane Gautier, ARCH
		This workshop provides an overview of HUD’s Youthbuild Program and will highlight successful models of youth development programs.
	Developing Partnerships to Reduce Homelessness
	Facilitator:	Fred Karnas, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Special Needs, HUD
	Room: Military Room
	Presenter:	Marlene Gordon, Facilitation for the Continuum of Care, Louisville, KY Sue Washington, Washington, DC Tom Melville, Monterey County, CA
		This workshop provides an overview of HUD’s Continuum of Care for the Homeless and highlights successful Continuum of Care programs.
Economic Development Track
	Redevelopment through Mixed-Finance Housing
	Facilitator:	David Sowell, Senior Advisor, Office of Public Housing Investments, HUD
	Room: Jefferson East
	Presenter:	Terrence Duvernay, Partner, Duvernay and Brooks, LLC Paul Casey, Partner, Ballard, Spahr, Andrews, Ingersoll, Washington, DC Rick Gentry, Director of Public Housing Initiatives, LISC, Washington, DC Monica Hilton Sussman, Partner, Nixon, Peabody, LLP, Washington, DC David Gilmore, Receiver, District of Columbia Housing Authority
		Mixed-finance public housing development is the assisted housing program of the future. This session will be devoted to exploring mixed finance in general as a method of producing assisted housing in mixed-income environments, and looking at specific examples.
	Investing in New Markets through APIC
	Facilitator:	David Kass, Deputy Assistant Secretary For Strategic Planning, HUD
	Room: Monroe West
	Presenters:	Cliff Kellogg, National Economic Council Buzz Roberts, LISC (invited) Nelson Bregon, Office of Economic Development, HUD Todd Hasper, Staff Member, Representative Paul Kanjorski, PA
Homeownership/Safety & Security Track
	Marketing Historic Properties
	Facilitator:	Mary Madden, Assistant Deputy Secretary for Field Policy and Management
	Room: Edison
	Presenters:	Greg Sekula, City of St. Joseph, MO
		The presenter will describe successful techniques for marketing historic properties and specific incentives used in St. Joseph, MO.
	Tools for Rehabilitation
	Facilitator:	Ken Williams, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Grant Programs, HUD
	Room: Jefferson West
	Presenter:	Joe Egan Armand Magnelli, Enterprise Foundation Carlos Martin, Policy Development and Research, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Mary Kolesar, Office of Affordable Housing Programs, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
		A discussion on the available tools for completing housing rehabilitation using CPD programs and combing them with other resources.
Fair Housing/Housing Counseling Track
	Overview: HUD’s Fight for Fair Housing
	Facilitator:	Amy Wilkinson, General Deputy Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity, HUD
	Room: Monroe East
	Presenters:	David Enzel, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Enforcement, HUD Bryan Greene, Director of Policy and Program Evaluation, HUD
		In this workshop, there will be a discussion of the multi-faceted approach HUD is taking to enforce the fair housing laws and educate the public about them.
	Helping Families Achieve Homeownership: Housing Counseling
	Facilitator:	Engram Lloyd
	Room: Conservatory
	Presenters:	Barbara Moore, Women of Destiny Richard Lopez, Guadalupe Economic Services Corporation Steven Xanathopoulus or Carol Gish, West Tennessee Legal Services Gina Friemuth, Crestview Village Homeownership Program
		The Housing Counseling program provides valuable financial guidance to potential homebuyers and is especially helpful to minority and immigrant households that lack knowledge about the home buying process, financing options, and credit histories. This session will examine the full range of services housing counseling has to extend, such as homebuyer education programs, pre-purchase homeownership counseling, post-purchase counseling, mortgage delinquency and default resolution counseling, home equity conversion mortgage counseling, loss mitigation counseling, outreach initiatives, and renter assistance programs.
Public Housing/Client Services Track
	Public Housing’s Self-Sufficiency Programs
	Facilitator:	Milan Ozdinec, General Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing, HUD
	Room: Farragut
	Presenters:	Diana Pack, Kentucky State Office, HUD Nancy Scull, FSS Coordinator, Housing Opportunities Commission of Montgomery County, MD Donna Robinson, Volunteer Mentoring of Montgomery County, MD Roy Ziegler, New Jersey Department of Community Affairs
		The Family Self-Sufficiency Program (FSS) promotes local strategies to enable Section 8 and/or public housing families to achieve economic independence and self-sufficiency. This session will explain how the program works, recent changes to FSS, and discuss local FSS success stories.
	Causes and Solutions to Underutilization of Section 8 Vouchers
	Facilitator:	Deborah Vincent, Acting Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy, HUD
	Room: Lincoln West
	Presenters:	Gerald Benoit, Director, Real Estate and Housing Performance, HUD
		Many public housing agencies are having trouble using all of the funds provided by HUD to assist very low income families lease housing in the private rental market. The inability of PHAs to use funds result its Congress appropriating fewer funds for new incremental housing vouchers. The session will explore options available to PHAs to address some of the causes of underutilization and result in the PHA making full use of the funds available to the PHA to assist the maximum number of low income families available.
	Overview: Public Housing Reform
	Facilitator:	Rod Solomon, Director, Policy, Programs And Legislative Initiatives, HUD
	Room: Lincoln East
		Learn about HUD’s efforts to transform public housing and improve public housing management.
Affordable Housing Track
	Multi-Family Housing Crime Prevention Strategies
	Facilitator:	Ina Singer. Director, Baltimore, Multifamily Hub, HUD
	Room: Grant
	Presenter:	Billie Tebbens, Henrico County Division of Police Vernelle Vial, President, Police Apartment Coalition (PAC) Judi Richardson, Police Apartment Coalition (PAC) Kathy Hart, Wellston Villas
		This session will look at two approaches to crime prevention and neighborhood revitalization. One will discuss how the County took a comprehensive approach to crime prevention across multifamily communities in the County. Another presenter incorporated crime prevention strategies into a revitalization plan for a high crime area. Participants will learn keys to empowering managers and staff to becoming more efficient at problem solving.
	Expanding Reverse Mortgage Counseling
	Facilitator:	Vance Morris, Director, Single Family Home Mortgage Insurance Division, HUD
	Room: Hamilton
	Presenters:	Frank Pilk, Fannie Mae
		Participants will learn about three reverse mortgage products currently in use: HUD’s HECM program, Fannie Mae HomeKeeper, and a pilot program with AARP, and how they can best be used for different client populations.
	Successful Property Management
	Facilitator:	Mary Ann Wilson, Acting Secretary’s Representative, Philadelphia, PA
	Room: Kalorama
	Presenters:	Mari Rubi, Mora Housing Management, Inc., Martha Anderson, Madison Park IV
		This session will focus on how to set up a comprehensive approach towards management which emphasizes dynamic and flexible planning and successful execution of improved practices. Specific examples will be presented on how a wide range of management issues can be addressed and strengthened through a multifaceted, holistic and humanistic approach.
Neighborhood Networks Track
	Neighborhood Networks Local Partner Showcase
	Facilitator:	Christine Pelosi, Special Counsel, HUD
	Room: Jackson
	Presenters:	Carlin Llorente, Neighborhood Networks Project Dr. Eugene Brown, Chair, Applied Science and Technology Department, Northern Virginia Community College Marian Becton, External Affairs Manager, Bell Atlantic Butch Holtz, Special Agent, FBI
		Thousands of community partners have joined with HUD's Neighborhood Networks centers at the local level. Come learn how schools, businesses, banks, non-profit organizations and government agencies are making a difference in their communities by joining HUD's Neighborhood Networks initiative.

Last Revised: August 7, 2000

Content Archived: April 20, 2011