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Title Promoting Affordable Housing in the United States Day / Time Monday, June 19th / 14:00 - 16:00 Room MR03 Event Description This presentation will focus on the experience of the many diverse players in the production process. It will seek to tell the story of private sector leadership in facing this problem, especially the organization and use of local business associations to help tackle the problem, and the creation of public-private partnerships essential to fashioning special instruments of finance. It will use examples of the transformation of major, blighted public housing projects into successful mixed-income communities. Session Language English Speakers (information as provided by host organization) Al Mansell, NAR Past President Alven Lam of HUD, and Roger Williams of Annie E. Casey Foundation Richard Hanson of Mesa Development, LLC and James Miller of Park Boulevard This session is one of a series of 12 networking sessions organized by the International Housing Coalition (IHC) on important housing issues. Contact Need more information about this event? Please fill the contact form Related Documents (in English and / or French) Host Organization National Association of Realtors Host Organization Description The National Association of Realtors (NAR) is a professional association of U.S. real estate practitioners. It currently has 1.2 million individual members. NAR maintains cooperative working relationships pursuant to formal agreements with some 66 national real estate associations in 53 countries around the world. NAR has a long association with fair housing and the affordable housing issue. It is a Founding Sponsor of the International Housing Coalition (IHC) and has a been involved in international human settlements and housing issues for more than thirty years. Website (Organizer and partners) realtor.org www.cre.org www.aecf.org

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