Texas Association of Community Development Corporations
Presents The 2014 Texas Community Development Conference
“Broadening the Role of Community Development in Texas� March 30 - April 2, 2014 Menger Hotel, San Antonio
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TACDC Board & Roundtable
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Letter from Board President
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Map of Conference Center
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Conference Schedule
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Plenary Speaker Biographies
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Keynote Speakers Biographies
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List of Sponsors and Exhibitors
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TACDC Roundtable Members
TACDC Board of Directors President NICK MITCHELL-BENNETT CDC of Brownsville Vice -President GERALD CARLTON EDCO Secretary MICHAELLE WORMLY WOMAN, INC.
DEBORAH DENNIS WREM Literacy Group, CHDO
Valerie Williams Bank of America
Theresa Alvarez Wells Fargo, NA
JENNIFER GONZALES Alamo Community Group
Irvin Ashford, Jr. Comerica Bank
Stephan Fairfield Covenant Community Capital
JILL MILLER Odessa Affordable Housing, Inc.
J.O.T. Couch Texas Interfaith Housing
Rick Morrow Locke Lord, LLP
CHARLES PRICE Development Corporation of Tarrant County
Roy C. Lopez Capital One Bank
Gilbert Gerst Bank of Texas
Amanda Timm LISC/NEF
Rey Ocanas BBVA Compass
Victor Elmore Texas Mezzanine Fund, Inc.
Nick Mitchell-Bennett Rio Grande Valley Multibank
Mark Nerio Citi
Walter Moreau Foundation Communities
Treasurer SAMUEL HOM Pecan Village, Inc./MHMRA
SHERMAN ROBERTS City Wide CDC
Past-President NORMAN HENRY Builders of Hope CDC
MARK ROGERS Guadalupe Neighborhood Development Corporation
PAUL CHARLES Neighborhood Recovery CDC
TOM WILKINSON Brazos Valley Affordable Housing Corporation
Celine Thomasson NeighbborWorks America
TACDC Staff MATT HULL Executive Director ROBYN MURPHY Office Manager HOWARD PORTER Program Manager, Community Loan Center
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Presidents’ Letter
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hank you for joining us at the 2014 Texas Community Development Conference. We are excited to bring TACDC’s annual conference to San Antonio and we look forward to seeing long-time friends, making new contacts, and getting re-energized about the important work that we do across the state. Not long ago, community development and affordable housing were synonymous to most people. As community developers have emerged from the most recent economic downturn, many are engaging in new, non-housing related programs to improve the lives of their neighbors. The diversifying role of community development is central to the topics we are highlighting and exploring during this year’s conference. The theme for the conference this year, “Broadening the Role of Community Development in Texas,” is a reflection of a new reality for CDCs. This new reality is driven by several factors, including: a renewed sense of mission among community development corporations to better serve their clients, a need to diversify programs and funding streams to better survive the next economic downturn, and a realization that there are fewer CDCs now than there were before the economic crisis. Given these three motives, CDCs are taking on new roles and responsibilities in their communities. While affordable housing may still be their main line of business, more and more CDCs are expanding into infrastructure improvements, financial counseling or coaching, workforce training, education, and healthcare. To help orient CDC leaders to the range of programs being undertaken around the state, we have focused the conference around the concept of new possibilities. What can we,
as mission driven organizations, expect to emerge in the CDC field over the next two to five years? Will the new historic preservation tax credit open new possibilities for adaptive reuse in our neighborhoods? How will CDCs help alleviate the dire need for affordable and workforce housing in areas of the state impacted by the oil and gas industry? Can other cities pass an affordable housing bond referendum like Austin? Lastly, will social impact investing take hold and provide a new source of debt and equity for our collective activities? While we may not have the answers to these questions today, now is the time to explore opportunities so we can make the right decisions when the time comes to put plans into action. I want to take a moment to thank everyone involved in bringing the conference to
fruition. The TACDC Board of Directors and Conference Planning Committee have done a terrific job of planning the speakers and breakout sessions. I want to thank all of the sponsors and exhibitors for their commitment to making the conference a success. I also want to thank the TACDC staff for all of their hard work in putting this together. Finally, I want to thank TACDC’s members for their commitment to building the community development field in Texas for the benefit of all CDCs and low income families.
Nick Mitchell-Bennett President TACDC
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We are a proud sponsor of TACDC’s 21st Annual Community Development Conference. Aron Weisner, Vice President, Syndication-Originator Enterprise Community Investment, Inc. | 410.772.2621 aweisner@enterprisecommunity.com Kevin Bowen, Senior Vice President Bellwether Enterprise Real Estate Capital, LLC | 214.295.3828 kbowen@bwecap.com Bellwether Enterprise is the commercial and multifamily mortgage banking subsidiary of Enterprise Community Investment, Inc.
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B S S O: C C D S A M INUET ROOM Description: San Antonio has made great strides in addressing large-scale community development issues. Earlier this year the city was chosen as one of five Promise Zone communities. This is just the latest of several high-profile program awards including Promise Neighborhoods, Choice Neighborhood, and a Bloomberg/Livable Cities Financial Empowerment award. Learn how key players in San Antonio have come together to collaborate to receive these awards and how these awards are forging new relationships to improve the city. Presenters: Mike Etienne, City of San Antonio Mary Ellen Burns, United Way of San Antonio Lourdes Ramirez, San Antonio Housing Authority Moderator: Susan San Martin, Bank of America SESSION TWO: PERMANENT SUPPORTIVE HOUSING: GETTING STARTED
P ATIO ROOM Description: Permanent Supportive Housing is an area of great need in Texas where there are very few providers. Learn how CDCs can move toward providing permanent supportive housing and what unique attributes a CDC should have in place before developing PSH units. Presenters: Dianna Lewis-Gray, Corporation for Supportive Housing Kelly Opot, Corporation for Supportive Housing SESSION THREE: GROWING YOUR ORGANIZATION: HOW ORGANIZATION AL DEVELOPMENT CAN BRING CDCS TO SCALE
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Description: CDC leaders have many tools available to help them build capacity within their organizations to grow and reach scale. What are some of these tools and how and why are they beneficial to CDCs? Hear from experienced organizational development professionals and CDC leaders who have gone through an organizational development process to learn what works, and how to move your CDC toward efficiency, scalability, and sustainability. TACDC C D C
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Presenters: Jennifer Gonzalez, Alamo Community Group Marshall Tyndall, Organizational Development Consultant Moderator: Jeff Baloutine, NeighborWorks America
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S F: H P T C C D P ATIO ROOM Description: During the last legislative session, Texas joined the growing number of states that have enacted a state historic preservation tax credit which gives added financial incentive for the preservation of historic properties. Combining the federal and state historic tax credits will make historic preservation and adaptive reuse a viable option for community developers in the future. This session will provide the background needed to get started with a historic preservation project with an emphasis on how the tax credits improve the financial feasibility of a deal. Presenters: Brad Patterson, Texas State Historic Commission Robert Haley, CohnReznick Moderator: David Danenfelzer, TSAHC
S S: A H B C: L D C AVALIER ROOM Description: Affordable housing providers in Austin have met with both success and failure in getting voters to support general obligation bonds for affordable housing. Learn how and why the organizers were successful this past fall and what other cities need to do to bring this funding tool to their area. Presenters: Mark Yznaga, Health and Community Strategies Mandy De Mayo, HousingWorks Austin Moderator: Theresa Alvarez, Wells Fargo
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B S S S: P L R E T M INUET ROOM Description: Payday lending is one of the most pressing public policy issues facing Texans today. To date, the Texas Legislature has taken a “hands off” approach to regulation. However, reform advocates are finding success in cities by passing resolutions limiting the most predatory lending behaviors. This panel will focus on current efforts to reform payday and auto-title lending, as well as discuss what we can expect from future efforts and the 84th Texas Legislature. Presenters: Diego Bernal, Councilman, City of San Antonio Rep. Mike Villarreal, Texas House of Representatives Dr. Chad R. Chaddick, Northeast Baptist Church Lisa A. Rodriguez, Texas AARP Moderator: Brett Merfish, Texas Appleseed
S E: N M T C: H A NMTC P ATIO ROOM Description: Many community development corporations have projects that qualify for funding through New Markets Tax Credits, yet most CDCs are not positioned well to apply for and administer NMTCs. Most NMTC trainings primarily focus on how to apply to administer the credits when most CDCs only need to partner with a financial organization with an allocation of NMTCs. This session will focus on how NMTCs can be used in community development and how a CDC can partner with a community development entity that has a NMTCs allocation. Presenters: Gary Linder, Peoplefund Michael Fitzpatrick, Baker Tilly Jennifer Baker, Petros Advisors Moderator: Victor Elmore, Texas Mezzanine Fund
S N: H C D C AVALIER ROOM Description: Community development corporations across the state are taking on a broader, more comprehensive leadership role in their communities and healthcare is one area many are exploring. At the same time, the Affordable Care Act is incentivizing insurers to diversify their partnerships with nonprofits. This panel will explore how CDCs can enter the healthcare sector, what services they can provide, and how CDCs can raise funds for these new programs. Presenters: Julian Huerta, Foundation Communities Rebecca Brune, Methodist Healthcare Ministries Stephen Lobo, UnitedHealthcare Moderator: Celine Thomasson, NeighborWorks America
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The Texas Association of Community Development Corporation’s Annual Membership Meeting is your chance to guide the direction your association takes over the next year. Members will adopt new policy priorities and elect new board members. TACDC members and nonmembers will learn about new services and give TACDC feedback on new directions and services needed in the community development field. TACDC C D C
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M P B ALLROOMS A&B How One Book is Changing Philanthropy: Lessons from “Investing in What Works for American Communities” Speaker: Debbie Taylor, Citi Description: In the year and a half since the publication of “Investing in What Works for American Communities,” foundations and corporate donors have started revising how they invest in nonprofit programs. Cooperation among similar organizations is being encouraged as a way to generate more positive impact in the fight against social problems. Funders are now talking in terms of using investments to create systemic change that addresses root causes of social problems. A new emphasis on data collection and results-based performance is also taking hold in the philanthropic world. What does this emerging trend signal for community development organizations in Texas and how can CDCs position themselves to work within this new philanthropic environment? U.S. Housing and Urban Development in 2014 and Beyond Speaker: Tammye Trevino, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Description: The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has experienced many changes over the past few years from budget constraints to new rules that more closely regulate their programs and program users. Region VI Regional Administrator Tammye Trevino will discuss how these changes have impacted community development and affordable housing and what additional budgetary and programmatic changes we could see at HUD over the next few years. Understanding Fair Housing for Today and Tomorrow Speaker: Elizabeth Julian, Inclusive Communities Project Description: Fair Housing is one of the more complicated issues that community development and affordable housing practitioners must navigate. The affordable housing landscape has changed over the past few years due to a renewed emphasis on Fair Housing policy at the state and federal levels. Ms. Julian will provide the historical context to better understand and make sense of the Fair Housing changes we see today and discuss what we can expect in the future related to Fair Housing. Rural Housing and Community Development Update Speaker: Paco Valentin, U.S. Department of Agriculture Like other federal agencies, the U.S. Department of Agriculture is contending with both budgetary and regulatory constraints. State Director Paco Valentin will join us to discuss the direction the USDA is moving in Texas and how community development organizations can participate in serving families in rural Texas.
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B S S : C M R B MINUET ROOM Creating relationships and finding those potential homeowners can be difficult; creating sustaining partnerships that leverage resources that are a win-win for all parties is even harder. But when it happens - how is it done, who made it happen and can it be replicated in other markets? Learn three examples from around the state on how these relationships are being fostered, incubated and creating mortgage ready homebuyers that are taking advantage of the resources around them. Learn about the tools they use. Learn from their successes as well as their mistakes. Presenters: Raquel Valdez, BCL of Texas Irene Benavidez, Capital One Bank Jerry Carlton, EDCO and the Dallas Home Connection Steve Solis, Brownsville Affordable Homeownership Corporation Moderator: Roy Lopez, Capital One Bank
S : F F C C PATIO ROOM Description: Many CDCs now offer financial counseling or coaching programs to move their clients closer to the economic mainstream. Until recently, there were no standards for what these programs provided. Learn the best practices of financial counseling/coaching services, what the future of providing these services looks like, and how CDCs can help more people to become financially fit in the long run. Presenters: Woody Widrow, RAISE Texas Richard Keith, City of San Antonio Sarah Ellinor, TSAHC Moderator: Irv Ashford, Comerica
S : C D A H E G C AVALIER ROOM Description: As many parts of Texas are experiencing high economic growth due to the oil and gas boom, community developers and cities are struggling to keep up with needed services in these areas due to increased costs and housing scarcity. Learn how cities and community development organizations are responding to these new pressures and which parts of the state are set to be impacted in the future. Presenters: Gilbert Gonzalez, University of Texas at San Antonio Jill Miller, Odessa Affordable Housing Corporation Moderator: Tina Council, LISC
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W, A , : - : NW T PATIO ROOM “Teambuilding Toolkit” Trainer: Joe Gonzales, NeighborWorks America One of the key challenges of organizational and community life is developing a highly productive team. Managers and community leaders often struggle with individual and group disputes that seem impossible to resolve. This Teambuilding Toolkit workshop will identify key areas of conflict, proven strategies to identify the issues underlying these conflicts; and will provide an interest-based approach to resolving disputes and/or establishing and nurturing a strong team, whether a Board of Directors, organizational staff or residents trying to figure out how to fix their neighborhoods.
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Plenary Speakers Elizabeth Julian Executive Director Inclusive Communities Project Elizabeth K. Julian is currently President of the Inclusive Communities Project, a non-profit organization located in Dallas, Texas, that works for the creation and maintenance of racially and economically inclusive communities through advocacy and education. ICP uses its resources to expand affordable housing opportunities in the North Texas area and provides individual support to low-income minority families seeking access to higher opportunity areas through it’s Mobility Assistance Program. From 1994-1999 Julian served in the Clinton Administration at the Department of Housing and Urban Development as Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity, Deputy General Counsel for Civil Rights and, in the second term, as Secretary Andrew Cuomo’s Representative for the Southwest Region of HUD overseeing HUD operations in the states of Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Louisiana, and Arkansas. Prior to joining the Administration, Julian, a 1973 graduate of the University of Texas School of Law, engaged for 20 years in the practice of poverty and civil rights law in Texas, where she represented primarily low-income clients in cases involving housing discrimination, voting rights, municipal services discrimination, and indigent health care. She was co-counsel in the landmark housing desegregation cases against HUD in Dallas (Walker v. HUD) and East Texas (Young v. Pierce), and the Dallas City Council redistricting case (Williams, et al v. City of Dallas) which significantly expanded minority representation on the Dallas City Council. She was executive director of Legal Services of North Texas from 1988-1990. In addition to her law practice, she has been involved in civic and professional activities, both locally and nationally. She served on the Texas Gender Bias Task Force which was appointed by the Texas Supreme Court to study gender bias in the justice system in Texas. She established the Texas
Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights under Law of Texas and served as an Adjunct Professor at Southern Methodist School of Law in Dallas where she taught courses in Civil Rights Legislation and Women
and the Law. She serves on the Board of the Poverty and Race Research Action Council, a national non-profit organization concerned with issues involving the intersection of race and poverty.
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Debbie Taylor Southwest Regional Director Citi North America Community Development Debbie Taylor is Regional Director for Citi Community Development. She oversees community development and economic empowerment initiatives for
underserved individuals, families and communities. Taylor has responsibility for Citi Foundation grants, business contributions, microfinance initiatives, and CRA regulatory obligations in the Southwest region. Additionally, Taylor leads the team of regional directors nationally and is responsible for the City Community
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Development Innovation and Impact Initiative. She also coordinates the Texas State Leadership Council, focusing on the alignment of businesses toward common franchise and community priorities. A 30-year veteran of leadership positions in non-profit and civic initiatives in this community, she holds a Master of Public Administration from Texas State University and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Texas at Austin. Taylor is immediate past Chair of the United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Board, having also served as the 2007 United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Campaign Chair. She is currently Vice-Chair of the Board of ACCION Texas, and is Vice-Chair for the Dallas County Community College District Foundation Board. Taylor also serves on the Boards of the Dallas Women’s Foundation and the Women’s Leadership Council of United Way Worldwide. Tammye Treviño Regional Administrator HUD Tammye H. Treviño was sworn in as Regional Administrator for HUD’s Southwest Region by HUD Deputy Secretary Maurice Jones in Washington, D.C., on August 12, 2013. As Region VI RA, Treviño is responsible for overseeing the delivery of HUD programs in the states of Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Arkansas. From 2009 until her appointment at HUD, Treviño was the Administrator for Housing and Community Facilities Programs in USDA’s Rural Development agency. As administrator, she managed national loan and grant programs for housing and community facilities to help rural communities and individuals, including grants for single family homes; apartments for low-income persons and the elderly; housing for farm laborers; childcare centers; hospitals, libraries and more. From 1999 to 2009, Treviño served as chief executive officer for FUTURO, a Uvalde, Texas, nonprofit organization that provides housing, business, community development and technical assistance.
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Previous to that, she was the economic development director for LaSalle County, Texas, where her accomplishments included converting a 47-county, South Texas think tank into a nonprofit organization to work on regional economic development and other issues. Treviño is a certified Economic Development Finance Professional as well as a certified Housing Development Finance Professional. She received her Master of Business Administration degree from Sul Ross State University’s Rio Grande College, Uvalde, Texas, and her Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications from the University of Texas at San Antonio. Paco Valentin State Director, Rural Development U.S. Department of Agriculture In June 2009, the Obama Administration appointed Paco Valentin the Texas State Director of Rural Development for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. As State Director, Valentin leads the agency efforts to increase economic opportunity and improve the quality of life for rural Texans. Rural Development fosters growth in homeownership, finances business development and supports the creation of critical community and technology infrastructure. Valentin has dedicated his professional career to working for agricultural and rural interests. He formerly served as the Texas Program Director of the Rural Utilities Service with USDA Rural Development. For 34 years, he has worked with USDA in various leadership capacities, including his tenure as Area Director in both Georgetown and Bryan, Texas. He gained familiarity with community facilities and multi-family housing loans while serving as a USDA Rural Development Housing Loan Specialist. During the period of 19821991, Valentin was County Supervisor for the USDA Farmers Home Administration (FmHA) in Caldwell, Texas. Prior to that position, he served as Assistant County Supervisor in Gilmer Texas for FmHA. Before beginning his federal career in 1979 he worked as a ranch manager.
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During his tenure as State Director, Rural Development has provided over $8.3 billion in rural investments throughout Texas for housing, rural utilities, community facilities, and rural business and cooperative development. Among his notable awards, he was recently recognized with the 2013 Statewide Rural Leadership Award by the Coordinating and Development Corporation of the Ark-LaTex region, and was the recipient of the Urban Counties Leadership Award in 2010. Paco has also been awarded the USDA Rural Development Distinguish Service Award. Valentin holds a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture from Southwest Texas State University.
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Keynote Speakers Ivy Taylor, San Antonio City Council Sheila Crowley, National Low-Income Housing Coalition
Ivy R. Taylor was elected to serve as the District 2 Councilperson on June 13, 2009 and was re-elected to serve a third term on May 11, 2013. Taylor began her career working for the City of San Antonio in the Housing and Community Development Department and the Neighborhood Action Department. While at the City, she worked with a variety of neighborhood associations, developers and nonprofit organizations in order to facilitate inner city redevelopment. She also planned several of the City’s Housing Summits which provided an opportunity for community partners to exchange practical ideas on how to address our city’s housing needs. After six years, she left employment with the City of San Antonio to become a Vice President at Merced Housing Texas. At Merced, she worked to create and implement programs focused on children, education, health and financial literacy for apartment community residents. Councilwoman Taylor is a lecturer at UTSA in the Public Administration Department. Taylor currently serves on the board for Healthy Futures of Texas and Big Brothers/Big Sisters of South Texas. She has served on the City’s Planning Commission and as a Commissioner for the City’s Urban Renewal Agency (SADA) and on the advisory board for Our Lady of the Lake’s Center for Women in Church and Society. Taylor completed the Leadership San Antonio class sponsored by the Greater San Antonio Chamber of Commerce, and in 2004 was acknowledged by the San Antonio Business Journal as a “Rising Star” in their “40 under 40” class. In 2008, she completed Bank of America’s Neighborhood Excellence Leadership Training Program. Taylor obtained a Master’s Degree in City and Regional Planning from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1998.
Sheila Crowley is the President and CEO of the National Low Income Housing Coalition. Dr. Crowley joined the staff of the NLIHC in December 1998. She frequently is called to testify before Congressional committees on the full range of federal policy issues. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the National Housing Trust, Enterprise Community Partners, the Technical Assistance Collaborative, the National Housing Conference, and the Coalition on Human Needs. She is also an adjunct faculty member for the VCU School of Social Work and for George Mason University Department of Social Work, teaching social policy, social justice, policy advocacy, and community and organizational practice. She was the 1996-97 Social Work Congressional Fellow, where she served on the Democratic staff of the Housing Subcommittee of the United States Senate Banking Committee. Dr. Crowley came to NLIHC after two decades in Richmond, Virginia in organizational leadership, direct service, policy advocacy, and scholarship. She has worked in staff, board, and consulting roles with organizations that focus on homeless services, family housing, AIDS housing, housing for people with disabilities, senior housing, and services to battered women and victims of rape. From 1984-1992, she was the Executive Director of The Daily Planet, a multipurpose homeless service and advocacy organization in Richmond. She was the founding director in 1979 of the YWCA Women’s Advocacy Program in Richmond, the shelter and service program for battered women and their children. She is a founding member of the Virginians Against Domestic Violence, the Greater Richmond Coalition for the Homeless, and the Richmond Better Housing Coalition. Dr. Crowley is a social worker with a bachelor’s (1976), master’s (1978), and Ph.D. (1998) from the School of Social Work at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU). TACDC C D C
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Keynote Speakers Dr. Jim Gaines Texas A&M University Dr. Jim Gaines is a Research Economist at the Real Estate Center at Texas A&M University, focused on housing and land development issues. Dr. Gaines spent 16 years with KPMG and Arthur Andersen providing real estate consulting services. He also served as President of Rice Center, an urban research center affiliated with Rice University for five years where he directed the real estate, urban economics, and demographic research programs. Dr. Gaines started his professional career as an Assistant Professor of Finance and Real Estate at Kent State University and later was an Associate Professor of Real Estate and Finance at the University of South Carolina, where he taught undergraduate as well as graduate level real estate courses. Dr. Gaines has more than 35 years’ experience in a broad array of professional activities primarily in real estate research and education, urban economics, land use analysis and development and project risk assessment.
Dr. Gaines has worked extensively with major corporations, developers, investors, financial institutions and government agencies across the country. His assignments have involved all aspects of real estate analysis, including modeling market potential and economic capabilities, investment and/or development project risk assessments, identifying alternative land uses, financial and valuation issues, site development and construction risks and opportunities, and strategic corporate real estate planning. In addition to his consulting background, Dr. Gaines has been an active real estate educator not only at the university level, but also for professional programs in real estate appraisal, GRI, CCIM and other training courses. Dr. Gaines has authored numerous professional papers, articles, monographs and technical reports covering a wide array of real estate topics and analyses.
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