Tuesday, December 31, 2024, 3:30–8:30 PM
Union Station, Washington, DC

Thank you to our corporate sponsors

What It Is

Affordable housing is a critical issue facing many communities worldwide, and it’s important to constantly adapt to new realities, ensuring everyone has access to affordable housing options. By proactively adapting to new realities, including innovative solutions, we can work together, increasing the amount of affordable housing for economically challenged members of society.

This year’s Symposium will look at the following factors, addressing considerations to meet needs. Our goal is creating sustainable affordable housing and inclusive communities for the future.

• Addressing Urban Challenges: The Intersection of Race, Crime, and Affordable Housing
• Innovations in Boosting Supply and Sustainability: Doing More With Less
• New Financial Partnering Strategies: “Beyond LIHTC”

Diana Nyad, World Champion athlete, renowned inspirational speaker, and author, captivated 25 million people worldwide when she completed her 35-year quest to swim from Cuba to Florida on September 2, 2013, demonstrating the power of the human spirit with her words “Never Ever Give Up” and capturing hearts with the recent depiction of her life in the 2023 Oscar-nominated film NYAD, starring Annette Bening and Jodie Foster. As a prominent sports journalist for over thirty years, Diana has contributed to National Public Radio, The New York Times, and more, with her memoir Find a Way and an OpEd on childhood sexual abuse receiving global acclaim. In 2019, she performed her play “The Swimmer” at the off-Broadway Minetta Lane Theater. Diana co-founded EverWalk, a nationwide walking initiative, and OceansCommit, promoting environmental responsibility. She is also an inductee into the International Women’s Sports Hall of Fame and the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame. Diana’s personal connection to affordable housing is the story of her brother who found himself unhoused for a number of years and her commitment to finding him the support he needed.

2024 NHPF Awardees

NHPF presents its Affordable Housing Trailblazer Award to two champions of legislation supporting affordable housing, Darin LaHood, Representative (R-IL) and Ritchie Torres, Representative (D-NY), each of whom has worked tirelessly to expand access to quality affordable housing in their districts.

We will also celebrate Paul Sween, Senior Managing Partner, Dominium, with the NHPF Affordable Housing Industry Leader Award for his dedication and impact in the field.

Insightful Conversations

Our Symposium will feature a thought-provoking panel moderated by Eva Thibaudeau-Graczyk, Director of Supportive Housing at The NHP Foundation. Joining her will be:

• David Bowers, Vice President, Mid-Atlantic Market and Senior Advisor for the Faith-Based Development Initiative at Enterprise Community Partners
• Carlos Martín, Director of the Remodeling Futures Program at the Harvard University Joint Center for Housing Studies
• David A. Northern, Sr., President and CEO of the Houston Housing Authority

Who Benefits

With Housing Stability, All Things are Possible. Whether striving towards an educational goal, accessing benefits, taking up a new hobby, or finally being debt-free with a fulfilling job, residents who live in affordable housing communities featuring Operation Pathways’ in-house, personalized coaching services work together with Resident Services Coordinators to create their most successful and rewarding lives. Through improved financial, health, educational, and aging outcomes, Operation Pathways is changing the face of affordable housing. Operation Pathways, a subsidiary of The NHP Foundation, operates in 13 states at 32 sites accompanying thousands of residents every year on their journeys to a better life.

Event Format

3:30 PM  Registration and Networking Cocktail Hour begin in Palm Court with an open bar and passed hors d’oeuvres
4:30 PM  Program begins in East Hall
6:30 PM  Dinner is served; keynote address
7:30 PM  Networking and dessert in Palm Court

Thank you to our generous supporters

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CONTRIBUTORS

Mecky Adnani
Alatus
Sumrien Ali
Lauren Avioli
Scott L. Barkan
Bonstra I Haresign Architects
Caliber Real Estate
Glynna Christian
Todd Darling
Nish Desai
Kelli Dickerson
Neal Drobenare
Alla A. Eleon
Rebecca Ely
Sarah E. Feinberg
Marijane Funess
Veronica Gonzalez
Terry Green
Homes for America
Houston for Housing
Robert Jefferson
KeyBank
KGD Architecture
KMA Studios
Thalia Lankin
LaRosa Building Group
Kevin Lewis
M&T Realty Capital
Magnificat Houses
Mega Contracting Group
Fred Mitchell
New Communities Law
Mark Nightingale
Anna Petrosyan
Eric W. Price
Tim Pryor
Meade Rhoads
Joan & Jonathan Rogers
Charu Singh
Smith & Company Architects
Rachel & Jason Soifer
Sue & Bruce Soifer
Spencer Rose Consulting
Synergy Modular, Inc.
Eva Thibaudeau-Graczyk
Thomas Safran & Associates
Thomas G. Vaccaro
Allen Webster
Well Built Construction Consulting
John Welsh
Kenneth White
Mary & Joseph Wiedorfer
Rogers Yogodzinski
Andrey Zudin

Headquartered in New York City with offices in Washington, DC, and Chicago, IL, The NHP Foundation (NHPF) was launched on January 30, 1989, as a publicly supported 501(c)(3) not-for-profit real estate corporation. NHPF is dedicated to preserving and creating sustainable, service-enriched multifamily housing, and scattered-site communities that are both affordable to low and moderate income families and seniors, and beneficial to their communities. Through Family-Centered Coaching, NHPF’s subsidiary Operation Pathways engages with, and assists, families experiencing poverty and other hardship, to problem-solve together. Through partnerships with major financial institutions, the public sector, faith-based initiatives, and other not-for-profit organizations, NHPF has 59 properties, including approximately 10,000 units, in 16 states and the District of Columbia. For more information, please visit www.nhpfoundation.org.

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