Materials from Recent NeighborWorks Events
NeighborWorks America sponsors a number of regional and national events focused on best practices and the latest in stabilization theory and practice. For each event below, you may review an event agenda and download materials by clicking on the agenda item link.
- December 2, 2010, Columbus, Ohio: Sustainable Strategies, Best Practices: A Regional Workshop on Neighborhood Stabilization
- November 9, 2010, Providence, Rhode Island: Building Stable Communities: A Regional Forum on Responding to Foreclosure
May 10-11, 2012
Nonprofit NSP2 Grantee Convening
This convening of nonprofit NSP2 grantees and their consortium partners was held at the NeighborWorks Training Institute in New Orleans. Pleanary sessions and breakouts focused on topics key to implementation of NSP2, including regulations and compliance, neighborhood marketing and home sales, financing, impact evlauation and more.
- Agenda Booklet
- Rebuilding New Orleans Better Than Before: Dr. Allison Plyer, Greater New Orleans Community Data Center
- Facilitating the Stabilization of Hard Hit Neighborhoods, Getting to Scale: Craig Nickerson, National Community Stabilization Trust
- Regulations and Compliance: Marsha Tonkovich, ICF International and John Laswick, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
- Engaging Residents in Community Stabilization Efforts: Bernadette Orr, NeighborWorks America
- Videos Presented by Hala Farid, Citi Community Development: Three Cities, Three Organizations, Three Stages of Community Development in Action: Detroit, St. Louis, Phoenix
- Community Branding and Image-Building: Marcia Nedland, Fall Creek Consultants
- Program Implementation and Problem Solving: Steve Hegge, Community Resources and Housing Development Corp. and Christopher Plummer, ASK Development Solutions, Inc.
- Financial Management: Joanne Montagner-Hull, Your Bean Counters
- NSP2 Financial Management: Joanne Montagner-Hull, Your Bean Counters
- Rental Conversion and Lease-Purchase: Wendy Smith, Capital Access
- Measuring Market Change: Ira Goldstein, The Reinvestment Fund
- Framing Neighborhood Stabilization: Michael Goldberg, ActionMedia
SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIALS
- Housing Development and Abandonment: Greater New Orleans Community Data Center
- New Orleans Index at Six Executive Summary: Greater New Orleans Community Data Center
- NSP Clinic: Disposition Strategies
- NSP Clinic: Program Design - New Staff and First-Time Grantees
- NSP Clinic: Program Rules and Requirements
- Sample NSP Expenditure Plan
- QuickStart Neighborhood Marketing Worksheets: Fall Creek Consultants
- Neighborhood Identity: Creating Core Messages and Reinforcing Them With Activities and Communication: Fall Creek Consultants
- Video: Lake Worth, FL NSP Case Study
- Video: Tucson, AZ NSP Case Study
- Video: Orange County, CA NSP Case Study
- Video: Columbus, OH NSP Case Study
January 11, 2012
Webinar: Can Lease-Purchase Save Us?
Sponsored by NeighborWorks America and the National Housing Institute/Shelterforce
Shelterforce Editor Miriam Axel-Lute moderated this Webinar based on her Shelterforce articleby the same name. Panelists included Bill Goldsmith of Mercy Portfolio Services in Chicago, John O'Callaghan of ANDP in Atlanta, and Staci Horwitz from Community of Lakes CLT in Minneapolis. Download the presentations here.
Webinar: NSP Program Administration for Nonprofits
This webinar covered the key requirements for administering NSP funds. It covered eligible administrative and activity delivery costs, including indirect rates. Other topics included key financial management issues such as cost reasonableness, audits, program income and procurement. The webinar also discussed the policies and procedures nonprofits need in order to effectively manage the program and suggestions for developing, adapting and implementing these policies and procedures, including good tools such as checklists. Finally, the webinar discussed monitoring and tracking of partners, including NSP2 consortia members.
Webinar: Managing Scattered Site Rental Programs
In this July 14th Webinar, participants got a tour of the new online Scattered Site Rental Toolkit, and heard presentations by two organizations that manage successful scattered site programs. Download the presentation here.
May 19, 2011, Detroit, Michigan
Nonprofit NSP2 Grantee Convening
On Thursday, May 19, 2011, NeighborWorks America brought together nonprofit grantees along with their consortium partners for a one-day convening focused on implementation of Round 2 of the Neighborhood Stabilization Program. The event featured training clinics led by industry experts, peer sharing sessions, exciting keynote presentations, and Q&A with HUD staff.
MATERIALS
- Agenda Booklet
- Beyond NSP: Framing Strategies in a Challenging Environment Part 2, by Alan Mallach
- The Effectiveness of Nonprofit Lead-Organization Networks for Social Service Delivery, by Bin Chen and Elizabeth A. Graddy
- Reputation and Relationships News Articles
- Considering Lease Purchase
- United Housing Neighborhood Stabilization Lease
- United Housing 2010 NSP FIRST Mortgage Loan Program Summary
- NSP Marketing Campaign Checklist
November 9, 2010, Providence, Rhode Island
Building Stable Communities: A Regional Forum on Responding to Foreclosure
On Tuesday, November 9, 2010 NeighborWorks® America and the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston convened a one-day regional symposium in Providence, RI to explore the effects of foreclosure in New England. This invitation-only forum drew representatives of the housing and community development, philanthropy, finance, and other allied fields to discuss comprehensive and innovative strategies to stabilize communities. Select individual materials from the event agenda below.
AGENDA
Welcome and Opening Plenary
Presentations:
- Alan Mallach - “Beyond NSP: Framing Neighborhood Strategies in a Challenging Environment”
- Ana Patricia Muñoz - “Building Stable Communities: A Regional Forum on Responding to Foreclosure”
Resources:
- Managing Neighborhood Change: A Framework for Sustainable and Equitable Revitalization, Alan Mallach, National Housing Institute, 2008.
- Addressing the Impact of the Foreclosure Crisis, Federal Reserve Mortgage Outreach and Research Efforts, Federal Reserve System, 2010.
- REO & Vacant Properties Strategies for Neighborhood Stabilization, A Joint Publication of the Federal Reserve Banks of Boston and Cleveland and the Federal Reserve Board, September 2010.
- Remarks at the Federal Reserve Conference on REO and Vacant Property Strategies for Neighborhood Stabilization in Washington, DC, Eric S. Rosengren, President & Chief Executive Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, September 2, 2010.
Reporting in from the Region: Innovative Interventions to Stabilize Communities
Presentations:
- Joe Voccio - "Rhode Island Housing's Land Bank"
- Carla Weil - "ROOF and Neighborhood Stabilization in New Haven"
- Matthew Wally - “Receivership 101: The Stabilization of Foreclosures”
Resources:
- Receivership: A Coordinated Strategy to Stabilize Troubled Properties, Chris Edell and Kai-yan Lee, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, July 2010, No. 2010-03
- Neighborhood Stabilization & Land Banking, Frank S. Alexander, Emory University School of Law, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Summer 2009.
- PBS Newshour Report, Boston Firm Offers Homeowners a Second Chance after Foreclosure, Air date October 20, 2010. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/business/july-dec10/banker_10-20.html
Innovative Interventions from Around the Country
Presentations:
- Frank Ford - "Innovations in Community Stabilization: Ten Strategies from Cleveland"
- Mark Schwartz - “Innovative Interventions from around the Country - Pennsylvania's HEMAP Program”
- Wayne Meyer -"Innovative Interventions: Lessons from New Jersey"
Luncheon Plenary: Recognizing and Addressing the Social Impacts of Foreclosure and Displacement
Presentations:
- Lauren Anderson - “Neighborhood Housing Services of New Orleans: Housing Trends in New Orleans”
- Mindy Fullilove - available soon
Resources:
- Five Years Later: Lessons Learned, Progress Made and Work Remaining from Hurricane Katrina,Testimony of Lauren Anderson, Chief Executive Officer, Neighborhood Housing Services of New Orleans, Inc., before the United States Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Disaster Recovery, August 26, 2010, Chalmette Elementary School.
- Root Shock: The Consequences of African American Dispossession, Mindy Thompson Fullilove, Journal of Health: Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine, Vol. 78, No. 1, March 2001.
Aligning Resources for Neighborhood Stabilization
Presentations:
- Craig Murphy - "Homeport Home Ownership"
- Mary Helen Petrus - available soon
Comprehensive Community Stabilization
Presentations:
- Chris Krehmeyer - “The Beyond in Beyond Housing” - available soon
- Jessica Anders - available soon
Supplemental Resources
- Meeting the Challenge of Distressed Property Investors in America’s Neighborhoods, Alan Mallach, Local Initiatives Support Corporation, 2010.
- Rebuilding Communities in Economic Distress: Local Strategies to Sustain Homeownership, Reclaim Vacant Properties, and Promote Community-Based Employment,James H. Carr, Michelle Mulcahy, National Community Reinvestment Coalition, October 2010.
- Responsible Approaches to Neighborhood Stabilization: Case Studies in Action, NeighborWorks America, 2009.
- Building Our Way Out of Crime, by Bill Geller and Lisa Belsky, U.S Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing Services, June 2009.
Stabilizing neighborhoods is a challenge for many communities in the wake of the foreclosure crisis. This regional workshop was designed to give community development practitioners tools for REO acquisition and disposition strategies within the parameters of the Neighborhood Stabilization Program, as well as an overview of several approaches to achieving transformative neighborhood change. This action-packed, content-rich workshop included breakout sessions on lease-purchase, land banking, rental projects, and buyer financing. Discussion breakouts focused on developing a "plan B" for disposition, evaluating success, NSP 3, and navigating the new political landscape. A reception following the workshop featured a marketing strategy fair with many affordable housing developers sharing their marketing and sales strategies.
AGENDA
Opening Panel: REO Properties, Housing Markets and the Shadow Inventory
Presentations:
- Sarah Greenberg - "NSP 101"
- Guhan Venkatu - "The Shadow Inventory and its Implications for Neighborhood Stabilization"
Break Out Presentations
Lease-Purchase: Learning from Experience
Status Report: Developing Rental Housing with NSP
Buyer Financing: What Works Right Now
- Josiah Madar, The Furman Center - "Mortgage Lending During the Great Recession"
- Dana Smith, Ohio Housing Finance Agency - available soon
Land Banking: The State of the Art Nationally and In Ohio
- Tom Fitzpatrick, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland - "The Evolution of Land Banking"
- Amy Hovey, Center for Community Progress - "Land Bank Operating Models: Unique Methods for Unique Communities"
- Dennis Roberts, Cuyahoga County Land Reutilization Corporation - "Cuyahoga Land Reutilization Corporation"
Closing Panel: Keeping the “Neighborhood” in Neighborhood Stabilization
- Marie Kittredge, Slavic Village Development - available soon
- Michael Sachs, Neighborhood Housing Services of Toledo
Supplemental Resources
- Mortgage Lending During the Great Recession: HMDA 2009, The Furman Center, 2010.
- Meeting the Challenge of Distressed Property Investors in America’s Neighborhoods, Alan Mallach, Local Initiatives Support Corporation, 2010.
- Rebuilding Communities in Economic Distress: Local Strategies to Sustain Homeownership, Reclaim Vacant Properties, and Promote Community-Based Employment, James H. Carr, Michelle Mulcahy, National Community Reinvestment Coalition, October 2010.
- Responsible Approaches to Neighborhood Stabilization: Case Studies in Action, NeighborWorks America, 2009.
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