Sign In Sign in form - Enter your user name and password to sign in. PURPOSE The purpose of the Student & Family Service Center is to assist parents, legal guardians, school staff, and community agencies in placing students in public schools based on adopted Board policies, procedures, and established attendance zones. This is a great opportunity to present research local to the region and network with other wetland students, academics, and professionals - right in our backyard. Remember that students get a discounted rate to the conference, so be sure to keep your SWS membership to date (student memberships are still just $25 per year). Southwest Local Schools is hiring for School Bus and Van Driver positions. If interested, candidates should reach out to Director of Operations Adam Lohbeck at adam.lohbeck@southwestschools.org and complete a classified application found.
SW-AHMA Membership
The SouthWestern Affordable Housing Management Association (SW-AHMA) is a membership organization serving the needs of industry members in Arkansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Texas. Our members manage and or support HUD, RHS and tax credit financed affordable housing. SW-AHMA sponsors industry trainings meetings each year throughout region plus three Regional Conferences. We are one of seventeen AHMAs associated with the National Affordable Housing Management Association (NAHMA). Together we work to preserve the nation's stock of affordable housing and promote rational policies to ensure professional management and communities of quality.
OUR MISSION: SW-AHMA strives to be the indispensable resource to owners and managers of affordable housing. Our objectives are to improve your business while saving you time, energy and money. SW-AHMA will provide:
- Prompt, well-analyzed information concerning changing housing policies, regulations and legislation
- A positive, continuing dialogue with regulatory agencies regarding issues important to members
- Affordable quality training to managers and front line staff
- Valuable opportunities for networking
- Effective advocacy
HOW DO I JOIN SW-AHMA? Please complete the membership application after determining the class of membership that is appropriate for your organization. Agent Membership is open to any property owners/operators, agents and Public Housing Authorities of multifamily housing that is affordable to lower income individuals, by virtue of governmental housing programs. Agent Membership conveys the benefits of membership to Owner/Agent home office staff and makes the Agent a Subscriber Member of NAHMA. Property membership is for multifamily housing properties that are affordable to lower income individuals. Property membership conveys the benefits and discounts to the employees of the member property. Vendor Membership is open to those businesses which provide services and supplies to agent or property members. Affiliate Members are organizations, monitoring agencies or associations that are affiliated with the affordable housing industry but do not themselves manage multi-family housing. Examples are the Regional Department of Housing and Urban Development Housing and Finance Authorities or Contract Administrators.
Please contact SW-AHMA (210) 822-5852 for questions regarding membership.
WELCOME TO SWAHMA
SW-AHMA is a non-profit professional organization composed of property owners, management agents and related professionals who specialize in the development and operation of affordable housing. Since its inception in 1988, SW-AHMA has dedicated itself to the following:
- Interfacing actively with affordable regulatory agencies to address relevant topics and issues.
- Facilitating communication between management professionals and agency officials.
- Providing opportunities for professional training and development.
- Assisting management professionals in providing better service to both residents and owners.
- Supporting the National Affordable Housing Management Association's (NAHMA) efforts with legislative and regulatory policy that promotes the development and preservation of decent and safe affordable housing.
Cities Where You Can Afford to Work and Live®
In Response to the National Affordable Housing Crisis:
In response to the nation’s severe shortage of affordable rental housing, the National Affordable Housing Management Association (NAHMA) has launched an initiative to identify and highlight Cities Where You Can Afford to Work and Live®.
Across the country, teachers, firefighters, police, restaurant staff, retail workers and retirees among others – all core members of a healthy, vibrant community – can’t afford to live in the cities they have served. For many, more than half of their income goes to pay the rent, leaving little left over for food, utilities, transportation, health care, day care and other vital needs. This growing financial burden for basic rental housing for millions of Americans challenges the social and economic well-being of cities large and small. NAHMA’s goal is to identify and highlight innovative programs by cities that successfully increase the net number of affordable rental housing units in their communities.
NAHMA is pleased to work with Dr. Dustin C. Read, Assistant Professor of Property Management and Real Estate at Virginia Tech, to publish the following overview report on five cities that are finding success in implementing policies to address the shortage of affordable housing in their locales
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To download a free PDF of the report, click on the headline link below:
Providing Affordable Rental Housing:
Five Cities Taking Steps to Improve Access and Availability
By Dustin C. Read, Ph.D., J.D.
Assistant Professor of Property Management and Real Estate
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia
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