Housing Preservation Symposium
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
1:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Central Plaza
Washington Group Auditorium
720 Park Boulevard, Boise, Idaho

There are over 45,000 manufactured homes located in communities throughout Idaho.  Sales and closures jeopardize these properties and threaten the loss of several hundred affordable homes per year.  Neighborhood Housing Services, Inc. is pleased to present a symposium featuring three nationally-recognized experts offering solutions to this affordable housing issue.

George McCarthy, Senior Program Officer, The Ford Foundation is a rural affordable housing researcher who has underwritten several studies on manufactured housing and invested in numerous market-based change strategies aimed at increasing the asset-building potential of this housing stock.

Paul Bradley, Director, ROC USA and Cheryl Sessions, Director of Policy & Development, ROC USA are the country's leading practitioners in the field of resident-ownership.  They have built a highly successful Resident Owned Community system, including the preservation of 85 park communities in New Hampshire.  Through ROC USA, they are advancing a national scale strategy in concert with other national organizations to build training and financing capacity to expand resident-ownership in other states.

Our special guests for this symposium include the Governor’s Manufactured Home Park Advisory Committee, the BSU Mobile Home Community Research Group, and other community groups currently addressing this important housing issue.

If you are interested in attending this event, please call (208) 343-4065.