Session Title & Brief Description
FINANCE
2026 PHA Financial Update
This session will provide detailed coverage and practical implementation guidance on the following recent changes:
- Public Housing Cash Management, PIH 2025-20, upcoming SF-425 Reporting and related tracking guidance and recommendations
- New Interest Income requirements for interest earned on Public Housing Operating Funds
- Upcoming Public Housing Assessment System (PHAS) changes per HUD’s regulatory agenda
- GASB Update to include GASB 103 resulting in very significant changes to the reporting model
- Detailed discussion concerning PIH 2025-14, resulting in significant accounting and financial management changes for PHAs
- HUD’s plans for COCC, to implement recommendations from OIG COCC report
- Strategies to increase revenue and reduce expenses in a tight budgetary environment
- eVMS – thorough walkthrough of this new module
- Recommendations to control HAP expenses to avoid shortfall
- HCV background, funding, and utilization including the Two-Year Tool
SMALL AGENCY TASK FORCE
HOTMA: An In-Depth Review of Programmatic Changes
Module 1: Understanding HOTMA’s Structure and Scope- Organizations, Implementation Timelines
Module 2: Eligibility & Admissions- New definition(s) for household members, Asset Limitations at Admission, Inspection Flexibilities
Module 3: Verifications- Safe Harbor, Self Certification, 9886A & 9887A
Module 4: Annual Income- New income definitions, Income Exclusions, Student Financial Aid, Asset Exclusions, New Asset Definitions, Calculating Asset Income
Module 5: Adjusted Income- Mandatory vs. Discretionary, Hardships & Permissive Deductions
Module 6: Interim Reexaminations- Mandatory & Discretionary use of EIV, Interim Increases/Decreases, Non-Interims, Processing Timeframes
Module 7: Annual Reexaminations- Asset Limitation After Admissions, Payment Standard Changes, PH Over Income Limits
Module 8: HOTMA Compliance & Governance- DeMinimis Errors, PHA Owned Housing, Housing Program Specific (PBV, LITCH, MF, HOPWA, FUP), Inflationary Adjustment Summary.Participant Guide Activities
PUBLIC HOUSING/MULTI-FAMILY/ASSET REPOSITIONING
Public Housing Repositioning and RAD – Strategies to Best Meet Your Mission
The tools to reposition your public housing properties have evolved dramatically over the last five years, warranting another look. Join HUD staff to learn more about how repositioning can help you physically and financially stabilize your properties, improve your residents’ quality of life, and meet your mission.
This day-and-a-half workshop will help housing authority leaders understand the opportunities available through public housing repositioning, with an emphasis on the Rental Assistance Demonstration. It will introduce you to the key decisions and choices leading to a potential repositioning action, and the implications of those decisions for the agency, the property, and the residents. We’ll discuss RAD and RAD/Section 18 Blends, and how to choose between these options and non-RAD Section 18 actions. We’ll explore property revenue and financing options, from public funds to commercial debt and low-income housing tax credits. We’ll also workshop some scenarios and strategies, based on participants’ portfolios and goals. Whether you’ve got a small or large portfolio, traditional public housing or mixed-finance developments, this workshop is designed to introduce you to the many repositioning options HUD has created and to focus on what you want to know. The workshop will get you started, enhance your knowledge, and help you navigate your choices to best serve the needs of your community.
WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP
Lead With Strengths: Coaching for Engagement, Growth, and Results
What if your greatest opportunity as a leader isn’t fixing weaknesses—but developing strengths?
The most effective leaders know their own strengths and understand they need to flex their approach by working with each person’s individual strengths and style. Inspired by Gallup’s strengths-based approach, this interactive worship explores how focusing on what people naturally do best can increase engagement, improve performance, and build more confident, productive teams. You’ll learn practical techniques to recognize talents, leverage strengths, and create a culture and environment where people can thrive.
Revitalize and Recharge: From Burnout to Thriving
Leadership shouldn’t come at the expense of your well-being. Yet too many women spend their days pouring into everyone else while running on empty themselves.
If you’re ready to move from surviving to thriving, this workshop is for YOU! Discover why burnout happens, what’s draining your energy, and leave with practical strategies to reduce stress, set healthy boundaries, and reclaim the energy you need to lead with purpose and confidence. You’ll leave with fresh insights, actionable tools, and a plan to help you build resilience, create greater balance, and thrive—both professionally and personally.
From Potential to Possibility: Take Charge of Your Career
What could be possible if you stopped letting circumstances define your career and started intentionally designing it?
Are you waiting for the next opportunity—or intentionally planning your next move? In this workshop, we’ll explore what may be holding you back and discover how your purpose, passions, strengths, and experiences can help you create a clearer path forward. You’ll leave with practical strategies to build your confidence, increase your visibility, and make more intentional choices about where and how you want to grow.
It’s time to stop wondering, “What’s next?” and start creating it!
Accountability Through Better Conversations
Great leadership starts with better conversations. This interactive virtual training equips leaders with practical, actionable tools and proven strategies to hold others accountable through clear, effective communication. Participants will learn how to deliver meaningful feedback, set clear expectations, strengthen accountability and follow-through, and confidently navigate challenging conversations that improve individual and team performance.
Make Room to Lead
Reclaim Your Time, Empower Your Team, and Keep Work Moving
Affordable housing leaders are constantly balancing competing priorities, responding to urgent issues, and making decisions, all while trying to find time for the strategic work that moves their organizations forward. When leaders become the bottleneck, they spend their days chasing answers, or take on work that others could own, their capacity to lead suffers. During this interactive workshop, you’ll learn practical tools to audit your time and priorities, clarify decision-making authority, and strengthen accountability and follow-through. Together we will identify opportunities to reduce unnecessary demands, empower our teams, and create more capacity for strategic leadership, improved performance, and life beyond work.
COMMISSIONERS
AI in Housing – Full Day Hands on Session
Three hands-on working blocks, no tech background needed.
- AI for Beginners: Practical AI builds around real housing authority work.
- AI for Paperwork: HUD notices, policies, plans and compliance drafting.
- AI for Big Projects: Planning board packets, and communications plans.
Half-day, Hands-on working session in two blocks:
Managing Up, Managing Down and the Weight You Carry.
- Managing Up, Managing Down, leading a Board and a Team without carrying all of it yourself.
- Stress and Burnout for Housing Leaders and Staff. How to stop carrying the job home.
MAINTENANCE
Identifying and Addressing Moisture and HVAC Issues
The Energize Carolina’s Training Center proposes to provide specialized training focused on identifying, evaluating, and addressing common moisture, ventilation, and HVAC issues found in HUD-assisted, affordable, and rehabilitated housing.
Moisture, mold, poor ventilation, and improperly functioning heating and cooling systems can significantly affect the condition of a home, energy efficiency, indoor air quality, and the health and safety of residents. HUD’s Healthy Homes initiatives recognize moisture, mold, and poor indoor air quality as important housing-related hazards that should be addressed through comprehensive assessment, education, and appropriate interventions.
This training will provide housing professionals, inspectors, rehabilitation staff, property managers, contractors, and other housing-related personnel with practical knowledge to better recognize these issues and understand appropriate next steps.
Training Goals
The proposed training will help participants:
- Identify common sources of moisture intrusion in residential buildings.
- Recognize signs of excessive moisture, condensation, water damage, and potential mold growth.
- Understand the relationship between moisture, ventilation, HVAC performance, and indoor air quality.
- Identify common HVAC deficiencies that may affect occupant comfort, health, and energy efficiency.
- Understand the importance of proper ventilation and moisture management.
- Learn how to distinguish between issues that can be addressed through routine repairs and those requiring evaluation by a qualified professional.
- Improve communication and coordination between inspectors, rehabilitation specialists, contractors, HVAC professionals, and property owners.
- Incorporate healthy housing principles into rehabilitation and housing improvement activities. HUD resources emphasize comprehensive assessment of housing conditions, including building systems such as HVAC, as well as moisture and other health and safety concerns.