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As affordable housing issues become more prominent in our state, the focus on solutions and fresh ideas becomes more critical. The annual statewide conference, Housing Washington, has laser focused on this issue with speakers from around the country sharing expertise. Read the media alert. #HousingWA2017

What is Poverty and Who is Impacted? Understanding Poverty's Geographic Impacts is a Specialty for Housing Washington 2018 Speaker Scott Allard. Read more. #HSNGWA18 #ScottAllard #PovertyandHousing #PovertyGeographicImpacts

Message from Diane Yentel, National Low Income Housing Coalition President and CEO, on President Trump's Proposed Budget.

Housing Washington 2017, the leading affordable housing conference in the Pacific Northwest, today announced a new plenary duo of James Carr of the Roosevelt Foundation and Ethan Handelman of the National Housing Conference. These two well-known housing experts will take one the housing policy discussion in a new dialogue format, engaging the audience in interactive discussion. Read the press release.

Housing Washington 2018 closing speaker, Henry Cisneros, made news June 11th of this year speaking out about inequality and the hope for affordable housing. This former HUD Secretary and San Antonio Mayor spoke out on a driving tour of San Antonio saying to reporter April Molina, "If you don't have a decent place to live then most of the rest of your life is gonna be dysfunctional." He goes on to say, "Three fourths of the people in this country who are eligible for subsidized housing don't access it or can't use it because there isn't enough," Cisneros said. "We have only enough for a quarter." On October 4, 2018, attendees at Housing Washington 2018 will hear from him first hand regarding his views on affordable housing today and the crisis Americans, and Washingtonians in particular, are facing. “At Housing Washington, our goal is to bring in the experts, especially those who shaped where past housing policy, so they can offer insight and perspective,” says Kim Herman, executive director, Washington State Housing Finance Commission, the lead organization in sponsoring Housing Washington. “I know Henry and know that he served at HUD during a critical time and made a significant and positive difference. I am eager, as I hope all of our attendees are, to hear her perspective on today’s challenge in affordable housing.” Register To Attend.

The Washington State Housing Finance Commission honored six individuals and one firm as “Friends of Housing” last October at Housing Washington 2017 for their work to create, support and advocate for affordable housing in Washington state. Read the press release. #HousingWA2017 #FOH #WSHFC #AffordableHousingChampions

Housing Washington 2018, a nationally recognized annual conference on affordable housing, has announced the keynote presenters for its October 2-4 event at the Greater Tacoma Convention Center in Tacoma, Washington. Read the press release. #HSNGWA18 #HSNGWA18Keynotes #HenryCicneros #ChrisHerbert #MauricioMiller #JeremyNowak

Housing Washington speaker Linda Couch, President of Housing Policy for LeadingAge, speaks out about policy changes on the hill in several articles in the LeadingAge website. This June, her focus was to explore the “Similarities, Differences in House and Senate HUD Funding Bills.” “As it relates to housing assistance for older adults with low incomes, the House and Senate bills have many similarities, but also some differences,” she says. “The House and Senate bills would each provide $11.747 billion for the renewal of Project-Based Rental Assistance (PBRA) contracts, which provide housing for 1.2 million households.” She notes that both bills reject the President Trump and HUD Secretary Carson’s request to cut overall HUD funding by 22%.and the Administration’s rent reform proposal, which would change resident rents from today’s 30% of adjusted income to 30% of gross income for elderly households. Although is unlikely the bills will be reconciled into a single, enacted FY19 bill until after the November elections, it is important for Congress to hear consistently from advocates about the importance of these programs. Authoring many articles for LeadingAge, Linda’s primary job is to provide strategic leadership for LeadingAge’s development of housing policy and priorities, including identifying and analyzing various policy proposals. She works closely with top leadership in the Department of Housing and Urban Development and other key federal agencies and examines federally assisted elderly housing policies. Linda develops relationships with key policy-makers and communicate LeadingAge policies with Capitol Hill and other federal personnel. Hear more from Linda at Housing Washington on October 3rd from 11:45 am – 12:30 pm at the Tacoma Convention Center. To register, go to www.housingwa.org/register.

SEATTLE, Wash (March 8, 2017) – Diane Yentel, president and CEO of the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC), will be the keynote speaker at this year’s annual affordable housing conference, Housing Washington 2017, October 2-4, 2017 in Spokane, Washington. NLIHC is a membership organization dedicated solely to achieving socially just public policy that assures people with the lowest incomes in the United States have affordable and decent homes. Yentel will share NLIHC’s findings on how to end homelessness and housing poverty in the US with the anticipated 750 attendees. Yentel rejoined NLIHC in February 2016 after having previously worked as a policy analyst from 2005 to 2008. She is a veteran affordable housing policy expert and advocate with nearly two decades of work on affordable housing and community development issues. Before rejoining NLIHC, Yentel was vice president of Public Policy and Government Affairs at Enterprise Community Partners, where she led federal, state and local policy, research and advocacy programs. Prior to Enterprise, she was the director of the Public Housing Management and Occupancy Division at the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), where she managed a team overseeing the development and implementation of nationwide public housing policies, procedures and guidelines. She also worked to advance affordable housing policies with Oxfam America and the Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless, and was a community development Peace Corps volunteer in Zambia. Diane has a Masters in social work from the University of Texas at Austin. “Diane will be an amazing addition to the conference,” says Rachael Meyers, executive director, Washington Low Income Housing Alliance and Co-Sponsor of Housing Washington 2017. “Not only is she a powerful presenter, her perspective on the state of homelessness in our country today will be invaluable to our audience.” Housing Washington 2017 is set for October 2 – 4, 2017 at the Spokane Convention Center, Spokane, Washington. For more information, visit www.HousingWA.org or follow the conference on Facebook or Twitter.