Partners in Innovation: 2010 Regional Forums on Preserving Affordable Rental Housing

The National Housing Conference, with support from its research affiliate the Center for Housing Policy, partnered with the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the Foundation’s  State and Local Housing Preservation Leader Awardees to plan and execute the Partners in Innovation regional forum series.  Each forum centered around a unique theme related to rental housing preservation, with the goal of building on the work of the selected awardees to help strengthen preservation efforts throughout their respective regions.

Partners in Innovation: Preserving Affordable Rental Housing Through Energy Conservation highlighted state and local best practices in green affordable rental housing preservation and explored ways to better support this work through innovative partnerships, policy development, and legislative reform. Click here to learn more.

Partners in Innovation: Financing the Preservation of Rural and Urban Affordable Rental Housing examined the challenges and the opportunities for preserving affordable rental homes in urban and rural areas. With a special emphasis on financing rental preservation efforts, the forum brought together public officials, industry experts, and advocates to discuss and explore ways to better support this work. Click here to learn more.

Partners in Innovation: Preserving Affordable Rental Housing Near Transit  focused on the intersection of housing and transportation and explored ways to better support the preservation of affordable housing—especially rental—near transit. Click here to learn more.

This event was preceded by a one-day national symposium, Partners in Innovation: Including Affordable and Workforce Housing within Transit-Oriented Development, which examined the challenges and opportunities for developing and sustaining transit-oriented development that includes housing affordable to families with low- and moderate-incomes.  The symposium was made possible with generous support from the Ford Foundation, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, The Home Depot Foundation, Enterprise Community Partners, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Surdna Foundation.