REO & Vacant Properties: Strategies for Neighborhood Stabilization

Sponsored By the Federal Reserve Board & the Federal Reserve Banks of Boston and Cleveland

Date: September 1-2, 2010
Location: Federal Reserve Board’s Martin Building (Washington D.C)

The aftermath of the foreclosure crisis has left many communities struggling with large swaths of empty homes. The event, co-sponsored by the Federal Reserve Board of Governors and the Federal Reserve Banks of Boston and Cleveland, will help communities and practitioners better understand current barriers, promising practices, and regional differences related to neighborhood stabilization and the disposition of real estate owned (REO) property.

In conjunction with the event, the Federal Reserve will publish a new volume of papers that explores such regional differences and presents perspectives from the various participants involved in REO disposition–sellers, buyers, nonprofits, and municipalities. Finally, the summit will release key findings from a Federal Reserve research project on local uses of Neighborhood Stabilization Program funds.

After the event, PDF, text, and audio podcast versions of the panelists’ presentations will be available for download.

REO and Vacant Property Strategies for Neighborhood Stabilization is a Federal Reserve System initiative under the Mortgage Outreach and Research Efforts (MORE) group.

There are two ways you can attend this summit: 1) attend the summit in person in D.C.; or 2) attend the summit via video streaming at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.

1)  Attend the summit in D.C.
The summit will be hosted at the Federal Reserve Board’s Martin Building in Washington, D.C.  As space is extremely limited for this summit, please register online as soon as possible: http://www.federalreserve.gov/events/conferences/2010/reovpsns/default.htm

2) Attend the summit in Boston via live video streaming
Please email your name and affiliated organization to kai-yan.lee@bos.frb.org with a subject line “conference” to register.  You will receive a confirmation email with more details.

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