12:03 PM
Julio Barreto
Carol Galante, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Multifamily Housing at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), urged affordable housing developers to aggressively advocate before the government and philanthropy to ensure they have a seat at the table when decisions affecting housing are made.Galante was the keynote speaker at the 2009 Annual Meeting and Awards Luncheon for the Housing Association of Nonprofit Developers (HAND). HAND was formed in 1991 to support a professional community of housing providers in order to increase the supply of affordable housing in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. HAND was incorporated in June 1998 and is an IRS-approved 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. HAND is open to all nonprofit and for-profit housing developers, technical consultants,...
