Housing Funding for Public Agencies
Streamline staff training and enhance efficiency
Is your staff ready to undertake the complicated task of housing funding? Can they be trained quickly, while gaining a deeper understanding of the broader ecosystem of affordable housing finance? Through MSU Denver’s Housing Funding for Public Agencies course, your staff will dive deep into the affordable housing funding ecosystem, learning to align funding with agency goals, evaluate and underwrite projects, evaluate cash flow, identify the different funding perspectives of different funding sources, gain a deeper understanding of Low Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTC), and more.
Many funding agencies can benefit from knowing more about affordable housing finance issues and solutions like state, county and local governments, quasi-governmental agencies, community-focused banking institutions, and Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs).
This public agency-focused course will be offered during Session 1 that runs February 6 – 27 2025, and Session 2 that runs March 6 – 27, 2025.
Why take this course?
This short, four week course is designed to get your staff quickly trained as a public sector housing finance official. It can be used as standalone education or as a building block towards a certificate or degree. Upon successful completion of the course, your staff will earn a verified digital badge that can be included on resumés and social platforms displaying their new skills.
- Finish in four weeks
- In-person with a hybrid option
- Competitively priced at $800 (plus $35 registration fee)
- Resumé boosting
Introduction to Affordable Housing Finance
New to affordable housing? Start with this introductory session.
The MSU Denver Introduction to Affordable Housing Finance course provides you with a simple and accessible overview of affordable housing funding. You will be introduced to the unique opportunities and challenges, financing tools, and underwriting processes and tools associated with affordable housing. This introductory course is helpful for industry professionals, as well as students with a basic understanding of affordable housing principles.
This introductory course will be offered during Session 3 that runs April 3 – 24, 2025.
About the Housing Funding for Public Agencies courses
Housing Funding for Public Agencies
As a public funder of affordable housing, your agency has a unique opportunity to make a difference in your community. But you also have the responsibility to be a thoughtful steward of public funds as you manage your program. The MSU Denver Housing Funding for Public Agencies course is designed specifically for public agencies to introduce your staff to the unique opportunities and challenges of affordable housing funding.
Introduction to Affordable Housing Finance
The MSU Denver Introduction to Affordable Housing Finance course offers a simple and accessible overview of affordable housing funding. It introduces you to the unique opportunities and challenges, financing tools, and underwriting processes and tools associated with affordable housing. This course is ideal for industry professionals, as well as students with a basic understanding of affordable housing principles.
Each session runs in person (with a hybrid option) on Thursdays from 2-4pm in Room AD 260C on the Auraria Campus.
- Session 1 runs February 6 – 27, 2025 (Housing Funding for Public Agencies)
- Session 2 runs March 6 – 27, 2025 (Housing Funding for Public Agencies)
- Session 3 runs April 3 – 24, 2025 (Introduction to Affordable Housing Finance)
The cost of each course is $800 with a $35 registration fee.
Click on this registration link and choose which session you want to participate in. Please note that Session 3 is an introductory session open to anyone.
Students will receive a digital badge and certificate of completion.
Students will:
- Develop a holistic understanding of the economics driving the need for public-sector affordable housing subsidy
- Gain an understanding of the public funder’s role in projects large and small, urban and rural
- Gain an understanding of the project review as well as underwriting processes
- Develop a deeper understanding of project cash flow and its effect on project sustainability as well as loan versus grant funding
- Develop a deeper understanding of the differing underwriting perspectives of different project funders
- Gain a deeper understanding of Low Income Housing Tax Credits, including the roles and practices of distinct types of tax credit investors
About your instructor
Housing Funding for Public Agencies course instructor
Andy Proctor is the Director of MSU Denver’s Affordable Housing Institute. He brings with him over 27 years of experience in affordable housing finance, development and project management. He has worked with both government agencies, for-profit and not-for-profit organizations, and is principal at his consulting firm, Proctor Housing, LLC, which works with organizations throughout Colorado on subjects ranging from affordable housing policy, financial packaging, and project management.
Andy’s positions have included managerial roles as the Housing Development Program Manager for the Colorado Division of Housing, and Manager of the City of Boulder’s Housing Division. Other positions have included working as an Underwriter for Low Income Housing Tax Credits for Enterprise Community Investments. Andy served as Mayor Pro-tem for the City of Lafayette, CO and is a Veteran of the U.S. Navy. Andy Proctor holds a B.A. in Geography from San Jose State University and an M.P.A. from the University of Colorado/Denver.
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Questions about the course or registration
For questions about the course content, please contact Andy Proctor via email at: [email protected]
If you have questions or issues with registering, contact Brandy Schooler at: [email protected]
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Office Location:
Jordan Student Success Building
3rd Floor – #330
Auraria Campus
Mailing Address:
MSU Denver
Innovative and Lifelong Learning
P.O. Box 173362
Campus Box 6
Denver, CO 80217-3362