Press Releases

NH&RA members elected its Board of Directors for the 2022-23 term.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WASHINGTON (March 5, 2021) – National Housing & Rehabilitation Association (NH&RA) members today elected its Board of Directors for 2021-22. NH&RA also previously elected its officers for the upcoming year. “The pandemic and the economic downturn over the past year has affected so many lives and presented unique challenges to the affordable […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WASHINGTON (Jan. 29, 2021) – National Housing & Rehabilitation Association (NH&RA) today sent a letter to the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs leadership supporting President Joe Biden’s nomination of Rep. Marcia Fudge to serve as secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). “We are in […]

WASHINGTON, DC (March 3, 2020) – Holly Wiedemann, president & owner of AU Associates, Inc. was elected chair of the Board of Directors of the National Housing & Rehabilitation Association (NH&RA) at the 2020 Annual Meeting in Palm Beach, FL. Holly succeeds Robert Fein, chief operating officer, Redstone Equity Partners LLC, who served as chair […]

For Immediate Release WASHINGTON, DC (August 28, 2018) – The National Housing & Rehabilitation Association announced today that two Boston-based champions of affordable housing and development will receive NH&RA Affordable Housing Vision Awards in recognition of their stewardship and expansion of affordable housing opportunities for low-income families around the country. John W. Gahan III, Partner […]

  WASHINGTON (February 26, 2018) – David Abromowitz, Of Counsel at Goulston & Storrs P.C., in Boston Mass., was elected Chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Housing & Rehabilitation Association at NH&RA’s 2018 Annual Meeting last week in Palm Beach, Calif.  NH&RA is the leading professional association of companies and individuals who […]

The National Housing & Rehabilitation Association announced today that two Boston-based champions of affordable housing and development will receive NH&RA Affordable Housing Vision Awards in recognition of their stewardship and expansion of affordable housing opportunities for low-income families around the country. Pam Goodman, chief executive officer of Beacon Communities, and Chrystal Kornegay, Undersecretary of the Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community Development, will be honored at an awards reception in conjunction with the NH&RA Fall Developers Forum on November 6th at the Renaissance Boston Waterfront Hotel.

The National Housing & Rehabilitation Association (NH&RA) presented two recipients with this year’s Affordable Housing Vision Awards. The awardees are Maurice Barry, Chief of the Asset Resolution Branch in the US Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD) Multifamily Boston Satellite Office and Fred Copeman, Esq., Principal and National Director of Tax Credit Investment Services at CohnReznick LLP. Barry and Copeman were honored at an awards reception at the NH&RA Fall Developers Forum on November 1st at the Langham Hotel in Boston.

Sheila Dillon, Chief of Housing for the City of Boston, and Bill Machen, a Boston-based tax credit attorney and partner at the law firm Holland & Knight, will each receive a 2015 Vision Award for their contributions to affordable housing and community development.

An old school building is keeping seniors in their neighborhood after they sell their homes. An out-of-use factory provides shelter and services to individuals with special needs. A former motor club offers tourists a sustainable place to stay. These innovative historic rehabilitations are among the finalists for J. Timothy Anderson Awards for Excellence in Historic Rehabilitation.

Peter Bell, President and CEO of National Housing & Rehabilitation Association (NH&RA), explored the relationship between the adaptive reuse of historic buildings, energy conservation and the built environment at the U.S. Department of Energy’s 2015 Better Buildings Summit in Washington, DC.

Jerome “Jerry” Breed, Partner at Bryan Cave in the Washington, DC office, was recently elected Chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Housing & Rehabilitation Association (NH&RA) at its Annual Meeting in Key Largo, Florida.