We are excited to welcome you to our 2025 Habitat Florida Affiliate Conference! This year’s theme is Building Tomorrow, Together. As a network, we are embracing change, overcoming challenges, and finding innovative ways to serve our communities. Across Florida, the affordable housing crisis has required our affiliates to continually adapt. Yet, in the face of these challenges, the spirit of Habitat remains strong. Affiliates across the state are scaling up, building more, and serving more families than ever before. Together, we are forging a future where safe, affordable housing is within reach for all.
We have lined up an incredible slate of speakers and sponsors to share their wealth of knowledge with our affiliate network! Thank you for your participation! If you are looking to book your rooms for the conference, you can do so here. The hotel will discount the taxes with a copy of your tax-exempt certificate. This conference, from April 28-30, 2025 at The Shores Resort and Spa is exclusively for Florida affiliate employees and volunteers.
We are excited for you to meet our new lobbyists from Gray Robinson. Learn about how we are approaching statewide advocacy and gain an understanding of some of the strategic ways our lobbying team engages with our state lawmakers.
Learn about affordable housing resources that can benefit your work. Michael Chaney with the Florida Housing Coalition will introduce the SHIP program. Learn about trends with SHIP purchase assistance, construction subsidy, and acquisition/rehab/resale. George Rusaw from Habitat in Citrus County will discuss the Predevelopment Loan Program (PLP) and other programs and supports used in recent developments. In addition, Lainie Lowery, President of RCL Consulting Services of Florida, will review the Home Ownership Program (HOP), a source of down payment assistance. Learn why HOP is popular with so many Habitat affiliates and how you can benefit from leveraging state and federal dollars.
Speakers: Michael Chaney, FHC, Technical Advosor George Rusaw, Habitat Citrus County, President/CEO Lainie Lowery, RCL Consulting and Management, President
Saturday March 15, 2025 10:30am - 12:00pm EDT
Bill France B1st Floor
Fundamentals and benefits of accessing capital markets. Learning objectives: 1. Understanding mortgage leveraging. 2. Value of extracting capital from assets. 3. Tools and analysis required to appropriately access the capital markets. 4. Overview Habitat Mortgage Solutions and Products.
Speaker: Tim McCue, HFHI Associate Director of Credit and Portfolio Management
Sunday March 16, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am EDT
Bill France B1st Floor
