ENGAGE Breakout Sessions
This new RHAWA event promises to bring together multiple housing associations from all segments of the housing industry. So whether you are a small housing provider, a property management company, a large developer, a housing policy professional, or related to the rental housing industry in any way, there will be plenty of interesting discussions you can join from ad-hoc conversations with other attendees to the sixteen preplanned sessions to be facilitated by over 30 leaders in our industry. About half of these sessions will be traditional lecture-based education, and the others will be more relaxed panel discussions designed for our industry leaders to share real-time problems, and work towards furthering collaborative progress in housing policy reform in Washington.
There will be four tracks, each with four 45-minute sessions, with plenty of time between for exploring our expo hall to speak with various company representatives and get to know other people like yourself. You can stick to one track, or mix and match. When you register, we’ll ask you to complete a survey stating your preferences to help us prepare space for the more popular sessions.
Best practice education on rental operations.
Whether you are experienced or new to the industry, this 4-part track provides a crash course on rental operations led by three top attorneys and one leading property management professional. Learn (or refresh) your legal obligations and best practices for managing risk and maximizing positive outcomes from your rental property investment. Licensed real estate brokers can earn 3.5 clock hours towards fulfilling continuing education requirements for license renewal.
Investor development and supply discussions.
We all know the real solution to housing affordability and most tenant prob lems is the lack of rental housing and corresponding escalation of rent. But our legislators, city planning and permitting departments, and banking institutions often hinder instead of helping housing developers to get the job done. In this track we’ll bring together stakeholders from all sides to identify the barriers and possible solutions for promoting fast, efficient housing development that meets the needs of our communities.
Lively policy discussions to prep for the upcoming legislative session.
For far too long, housing industry stakeholders have taken a mostly reactionary approach to stop bad policies from passing during the legislative session each winter. We have invited many of these key stakeholders to come together for round-table discussions on new legislation we can promote to solve some of the serious housing issues plaguing our communities today.
Insight into effective advocacy for housing providers.
As it should be, our legislators’ main goal is to support what is best for their constituents, and there are well-organized tenant’s organizations feeding them strategy that has not been working, and in most cases exasperates our housing problems by pushing out housing providers. This track is all about how to get their attention and influence them to adopt real solutions from the large and small businesses that want to provide quality housing that is reasonably affordable for the renters in their communities.
Get a preview of the full schedule here in this edition of Current and check out RHAwa.org/engage24 for more details as our team firms them up. If you have not done so already, make sure to register before we sell out! Space is limited and we expect a big turnout as we are reaching out beyond RHAWA membership.
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