| May 4, 2011 | | 9:00 am | to | 4:30 pm | | May 25, 2011 | | 9:00 am | to | 4:30 pm | | June 14, 2011 | | 9:00 am | to | 1:30 pm |
Advanced 3-Day Seminar
Co-Sponsored by the Hyams Foundation and the Citizens’ Housing and Planning Association
Date: May 4, May 25, and June 14, 2011
Time: 9:00am – 4:30pm
Locations:
May 4: One Badger Rd., Framingham, MA 01702
May 25: 89 South St., Boston, MA 02111
June 14: One Badger Rd., Framingham, MA 01702
This advanced seminar will examine unique foreclosure redevelopment issues that differ from other kinds of housing and real estate development. Community developers have been pursuing diverse approaches to foreclosed properties in recent years. This three part workshop will share their experiences, with presentations by CDC staff and other experts in the field. All participants are encouraged to bring their own experiences and questions, so we all can improve our work to alleviate the foreclosure problems facing our communities.
This seminar is designed for nonprofits, municipal officials and others who want to improve their tools and techniques for improving the redevelopment of foreclosed housing. Participants should have experience in real estate development and be actively involved in foreclosed property redevelopment.
Specific curriculum areas of focus include:
- How redeveloping foreclosed housing fits within larger community improvement plans
- Multiple strategies for acquiring foreclosed properties, and which sellers are most active in Massachusetts
- Diverse approaches to renovating foreclosures
- Issues in redeveloping occupied foreclosures, such as regulatory concerns and property management needs
- Discussion of public policies and programs that can promote successful
restoration of foreclosed property and ways to improve them
This training seminar will be led by Louise Elving of Viva Consulting
Full Seminar Agenda
MACDC Member Registration: $150.00
Non MACDC Member Registration $300.00
(Registration fee includes on site breakfast and lunch for Day 1 & 2)
Online Registration requires credit card payment
For invoice payment & group discounts information, please contact Jay Rosa:
Jayr@macdc.org
617-426-0344 x.33
| March 23, 2011 | | 9:30 am | to | 11:30 am |
| Despite numerous local, state, and federal responses, the foreclosure crisis continues to grip our state and is expected to last for several more years. Since 2008, approximately 34,000 homeowners have lost their homes to foreclosure and nearly 36,000 households were at least 90 days delinquent in their mortgage payments as of November 2010. And now, a second wave of foreclosures is impacting suburban and rural communities and homeowners with stable, fixed-rate mortgages who are facing unemployment.
This forum will focus on what’s worked, what hasn’t, and what we can expect to occur over the next year. Speakers will address the areas of foreclosure counseling and prevention; neighborhood planning and stabilization; acquisition of foreclosed properties; preventing displacement of tenants; legal issues, such as the recent Ibanez decision; code enforcement; the Making Home Affordable Program and the new Emergency Homeowner Loan Program; upcoming legislative and policy initiatives; and what trends we can expect in the near future. |
Wednesday, March 23
9:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
One Financial Center
2nd Floor Conference Room
Downtown Boston (near South Station)
(Registration begins at 9:00 a.m.) |
| Moderator: Judy Jacobson, Deputy Director and General Counsel, Massachusetts Housing Partnership
Speakers:
James Barnes, Community Development Director, City of Lawrence
Nadine Cohen, Managing Attorney, Consumer Rights Unit, Greater Boston Legal Services
Peter Gagliardi, Executive Director, HAPHousing, Springfield
Kurt James, Director, Rackemann, Sawyer & Brewster; Co-Chair, Affordable Housing Committee of the Real Estate Bar Association
Timothy Warren, Jr., CEO, The Warren Group
Cost: $15.00 for CHAPA members and $25.00 for non-members. Space is limited and you must register by Friday, March 18. No refunds will be provided to those who register but do not attend the forum.
Registration: You may register online, by phone, fax, or email.
Online: http://www.chapa.org/?q=event; Phone: 617-742-0820; Fax: 617-742-3953
Email: odessaw@chapa.org |
| January 19, 2011 | | 2:00 pm | to | 4:00 pm |
Presented by:
Local Initiatives Support Corporation
& the Center for Community Progress
Date: Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Time: 2:00pm – 4:00pm
While all localities seek practical strategies to reuse vacant properties as a component of community revitalization, it is clear that some cities have been especially successful in implementing successful, replicable tools to restore vacant and abandoned places. One core strategy is using codes, ordinances, and policy to drive remediation. Join national experts Joe Schilling and Doug Leeper to learn proven techniques that are being used in cities across the country. The conversation will include both a toolkit of ideas that can be adapted to any community and also a discussion of specific cities that are at the cutting edge of policy reform. Participants will receive practical tips from national experts who have led local code and regulatory improvements. The session will include substantial time for questions and answers, and links will be provided for additional information.
Dial-In information:
866-740-1260
Access Code: 4559813
Web Login: https://cc.readytalk.com/cc/schedule/display.do?udc=mns0pwu8fnwb
| December 10, 2010 | | 10:00 am | to | 12:00 pm |
Date: Friday, December 10, 2010
Time: 10:00am – 12:00 noon
Location: ABCD, Inc. (178 Tremont St. 3rd Flooor Cass Room)
- Learn about Massachusetts’ new, Foreclosure Protection Law
- Find out the rights tenants have gained to prevent eviction and remain in foreclosed homes
- Learn how to organize & fight foreclosures!
(This training for housing providers, advocates and tenants will be offered in Spanish on Wednesday, Dec. 15th at the same time and place.)
RSVP by December 6th
Roxanne Reddington-Wilde
(617) 348-6214 or redwilde@bostonabcd.org
| November 15, 2010 | | November 16, 2010 |
Date: November 15-16, 2010
Location: Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA
November 15, 2010
9:00am-10:30am: Community Organizing Workshop
Leaders from City Life/Vida Urbana of Boston will lead a workshop on developing an effective anti-foreclosure community organizing program. The workshop will address how to start a successful community organizing campaign, key community organizing tactics to fighting foreclosures, and strategies for sustaining and expanding anti-foreclosure movements. In particular, City Life/Vida Urbana will discuss City’s Life’s “sword and shield” method to addressing the foreclosure crisis, whereby City Life both takes affirmative steps to keep Boston tenants and homeowners in their homes and uses legal tactics to fight post-foreclosure evictions.
10:45am-12:15pm: Developing a Successful Foreclosure Canvassing Program
Student leaders from Project No One Leaves, Boston’s foreclosure canvassing program, will provide a workshop on how to launch a successful foreclosure canvassing program. Foreclosure canvassing programs enable tenants and former homeowners living in foreclosed properties to receive information about their rights before the banks encourage them to leave or file eviction cases in court. The workshop will address how to recruit and train canvassers, what information to provide to tenants and to former homeowners, and how to set up a user-friendly canvassing mapping and data management system. The workshop will be followed by a short panel featuring leaders from canvassing programs in multiple cities.
12:30pm-1:30pm: Lunch Break
1:45pm-3:15pm: Panel on Using Legal Tactics to Fight Post-Foreclosure Evictions and to Support Community Organizing Efforts
Panelists from several direct legal services organizations will discuss successful legal strategies for fighting post-foreclosure evictions of both tenants and former homeowners. In particular, panelists will address how to use legal tactics to support anti-foreclosure organizing programs. The goal of the panel will be to encourage conference participants to identify tools in the law in their own state that might be useful in preventing post-foreclosure evictions and foreclosure-related displacement.
3:30pm-5:00pm: Enabling Former Homeowners to Buy Back Their Homes: Community Banks Workshop
Boston Community Capital (BCC) will lead a workshop on how community banks can enable former homeowners to re-purchase their homes. BCC will present its innovative home ownership preservation program in which it negotiates with banks post-foreclosure to buy back homes at their present market value as opposed to the inflated value reflected in the original mortgage, and then re-sells the homes back to their former owners at the lower rate. BCC leaders will explain how to find initial funding for this kind of program, how to screen homeowners for potential eligibility, and how to successfully negotiate purchases with the banks.
November 16, 2010
8:00am-11:30am: Foreclosure Canvassing
Conference participants will have the opportunity to canvass foreclosed properties throughout Boston to inform tenants and former homeowners of their rights. This program may be especially valuable for organizations working to establish a successful foreclosure outreach program in their home community.
12:00-1:00pm: Panel on Foreclosure Policy
Professors from Harvard Law School will provide an overview on the current state of foreclosure policy nationwide.
6:00pm-9:00pm: City Life/Vida Urbana Meeting
Conference participants will have the opportunity to attend a City Life/Vida Urbana community organizing meeting. Participants will learn community organizing strategies, meet community leaders, and observe City Life’s “sword and shield” model for addressing the foreclosure crisis.
Please contact Marielle Macher at mmacher@jd11.law.harvard.edu for additional information
Sponsored by the Urban Land Institute
Date: June 4, 2010
Time: 1:30 pm Eastern
Brush up on the basics of real estate finance and strengthen your technical skills with ULI’s Basics of Real Estate Finance: Part II webinar June 4th.
You will review foundational concepts such as time value of money and discounted cash flow and move on to mortgage payment calculation, residual land valuation technique, and future net operating income – skills that are essential to succeeding in the real estate industry.
Gain practical experience as you work along in Excel with the instructor in real time. You will be able to ask questions have them answered on a rolling basis.
Your instructor, Bruce Kirsch, is the founder and principal of Real Estate Financial Modeling, LLC and is a recognized expert in and top instructor of Microsoft Excel-based financial modeling.
Register today as space is limited!
| May 4, 2010 | | 1:00 pm | to | 4:30 pm | | May 6, 2010 | | 1:00 pm | to | 4:30 pm | | May 11, 2010 | | 1:00 pm | to | 4:30 pm | | May 13, 2010 | | 1:00 pm | to | 4:30 pm |
A Conference offered by Homeowner Options for Massachusetts Elders (H.O.M.E.)
This Lawyers Conference on Foreclosure and Displacement Prevention will help attorneys understand the unique fiscal plight of low and moderate income elder homeowners and the alternative strategies and specialized tools attorneys may employ in these situations to help their clients age successfully in place.
Session Locations & Times
Session 1:
May 4th, 2010; 1:00pm-4:30pm
Tower Square Community Room
1500 Main Street
Springfield, MA 01115
Session 2:
May 6, 2010; 1:00pm-4:30pm
Citizens-Union Savings Bank
4 South Main Street
Fall River, MA 02721
Session 3:
May 11, 2010; 1:00pm-4:30pm
City Building-LC 114
Middlesex Community College – Lowell Campus
33 Kearney Square, Lowell, MA 01852
Session 4:
May 13, 2010; 1:00pm – 4:30pm
Legal Assistance Corporation of Central Mass.
405 Main Street, 4th Floor
Worcester, MA 01608
For additional information, please contact:
Homeownership Options for Massachusetts Elders
781-848-5200
www.elderhomeowners.org
| April 19, 2010 | to | April 23, 2010 |
NeighborWorks America — Place Based Training
Date: April 19-23, 2010
Location: Providence, RI
Application Deadline: Wednesday, March 24, 2010
NeighborWorks America is bringing training on Community Stabilization/Real Estate Owned (REO) strategies and skills to Providence, RI, through its Place Based Training program. Apply today for a scholarship to attend training April 19th – 23rd — qualified applicants get all tuition and lodging covered (you pay only for travel and meals)! Get the tools you need to respond to foreclosure, from acquiring and rehabbing foreclosed properties, to selling and retaining properties as long-term affordable housing. Scholarships are limited.
Additional Registration and Scholarship Information Here
Hear from your peers and be part of a forum to discuss challenges, promising strategies and lessons learned in combating foreclosures in your states and cities.
The NACEDA Webinar includes an hour long webcast with a brief opening presentation on the national foreclosure picture, 3 presentations on innovative approaches at the state and city level from State Associations in Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Michigan, and a moderated question and answer period. Elizabeth Hersh of the Housing Alliance of Pennsylvania and Angie Gaabo of the Community Economic Development Association of Michigan will moderate.
Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 3pm EST
Click here for online registration
For additional information please contact:
Sarah McKinley
NACEDA Director of Special Projects
202-659-7701
www.naceda.org
| October 26, 2009 | | 8:30 am | to | 1:30 pm |
HAPHousing has assembled local, regional and national leaders for a strategic, half-day conference that promises to be both substantive and forward-looking. Given the critical role housing has played in the current recession, participants will examine the housing market’s vital importance in the economic recovery and revitalization of the western Massachusetts region.
Monday, October 26, 2009
8:30am to 1:30pm
The Log Cabin
Holyoke, MA 01040
Opening Remarks by Congressman John Olver
Keynote Speaker: Bruce Katz, Brookings Institution
Additional Information: http://www.haphousing.org/
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