G5: Department of Community Affairs (DCA) Update
Thursday, June 19 | 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
HUD & RSC: 1 Credit Hour
This continuing education program offers continuing education credit for Affordable Senior Housing Managers and Resident Service Coordinators to be submitted to HUD. Education covers federal/state senior affordable housing policy, ethical concerns, fair housing compliance, HUD Handbook training, financing green retrofits, supportive services, and solutions for aging properties and residents.
Join representatives from the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs for an insightful discussion on the latest policies and funding opportunities for affordable senior housing. Designed for housing managers and service coordinators, this session will explore key state programs, resources for developing new housing or improving existing communities, and strategies for navigating regulatory requirements.
Speaker Information
Assistant Commissioner, Division of Housing and Community Resources, Department of Community Affairs
Janel Winter is a passionate, mission-driven leader with more than 15 years of experience in the affordable housing, homelessness and community development fields. Her area of deepest expertise is the intersection of housing and services for Medicaid populations and other vulnerable people. Throughout her career she has served as a catalyst for change, at the systems level and within individual agencies, designing and developing large policy initiatives and also driving the changes needed to make implementation work. She thinks of her role as a translator – she listens to stakeholders from various backgrounds and helps them understand each other’s languages, whether they speak the language of bankers who might finance a supportive housing project or invest in community development initiatives, governmental staff who administer highly regulated programs, advocates seeking large-scale policy shifts, community providers trying to navigate systems, or people expressing their lived experiences of poverty and inequity.
