The Lake Ontario Event and Conference Center in Oswego will host the 2017 Affordable Housing and Community Development Conference on September 11, 12 and 13. Sponsored by the Albany, NY-based New York State Rural Housing Coalition, the conference will bring together affordable housing developers, housing counselors, community development professionals, lenders, and government officials representing rural communities all across New York.
Dignitaries attending include RuthAnne Visnauskas, Commissioner of New York State Homes and Community Renewal, the State’s major housing agency, and Senator Betty Little, Chair of the NYS Senate Housing Committee.
The conference features a variety of training workshops on management strategies for keeping affordable rental housing in good shape, new funding alternatives, regulatory compliance and mortgage financing for families that wish to purchase a home of their own.
Presenters for the workshops are coming from all over New York to share their expertise.
“We even have some trainers attending from out of state via Webex,” said Colin McKnight, Acting Executive Director of the Rural Housing Coalition. “We were very pleased to return the Lake Ontario Conference Center for the fourth year, Thanks to the state of the art electronics it makes it very easy to utilize programs such as Webex for trainings of this kind. Without access to the distance learning technology, we might have had to forego some of the workshops on our program.”
Commissioner Visnauskas will speak at the luncheon on the 12th.
Senator Little will deliver the closing speech at the conference luncheon on Wednesday afternoon. The conference will conclude on Wednesday with the annual meeting of the Rural Housing Coalition.
The New York State Rural Housing Coalition, Inc. is a not-for-profit corporation dedicated to providing education and training resources to help communities throughout rural New York to become vibrant, attractive places to live with safe, decent, and affordable housing for all.
Staff of the coalition work with a variety of local organizations, government agencies, and others to help devise practical solutions to community concerns, such as deteriorated housing stock, lack of affordable rental housing, and stagnant real estate markets.
Founded in 1979, the coalition is based in Albany, NY.
www.ruralhousing.org
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