Public Invited     Free

9:00am Registration

9:30am Program Starts

Affordable and attainable housing continues to be a critical need in Lee County, especially for the most vulnerable populations, those without the resources to recover. The League of Women Voters believes every family deserves a decent home and a suitable living environment.  The League supports governing that provides leadership and coordination to solve economic and social issues and assures needed services to all citizens.

Speakers 

Lowell Atkinson, Policy Analyst, Florida Housing Coalition   confirm title: policy analyst of technical advisor.  Lowell Atkinson currently serves as a Technical Advisor on the Florida Housing Coalition Affordable Housing Development team and helps manage the Predevelopment Loan Program, connecting non-profit affordable housing developers with pre-development capital for their projects and providing them with training and technical assistance to increase their development capacity..

Lois Healy, CEO, Affordable Homeownership Foundation  Lois Healy has over 10 years of counseling experience. She has served on 12 non-profit boards including two non-profit housing agencies. Lois worked for 3 banks in the area before becoming a counselor as a CRA loan officer and knows the ins and outs of affordable mortgages which makes first time home buyer counseling and foreclosure prevention and loss mitigation an easy task for Lois to assist clients.