9:00
Keynote Address: HUD’s Efforts to Improve Performance
of Public Housing Programs
HUD provides financial assistance to about 3,350 Public
and Indian housing authorities that provide public housing
and services to about four million households. Hear about
the current initiatives, major challenges and risks facing
the Department of Housing and Urban Development and, specifically,
the Public Housing Program. Link these facts to the President’s
Management Agenda and new Performance Measures.
Michael Liu, Director
of Public Housing, Department of Housing and Urban Development
9:45
Leadership Panel: Key Perspectives, Issues and Practices
for Measuring and Improving the Performance of Public Housing
Programs
• Understand the advances on planned HUD outcomes:
increased homeownership; increased affordability; safe and
decent rental housing; improved community economic vitality
and quality of life; less fraud, waste and error as they
relate to performance evaluation and project management
strategies
• Learn how well current programs like HOME, CDBG
(Community Development Block Grant), and HOPE VI (Homeownership
and Opportunity for People Everywhere) operate as production
tools, whether they are articulate and what improvements
can be
expected
• Meet the challenges of measuring and achieving President
Bush’s “Homeownership Challenge”
Sandra Henriquez,
Executive Director, Boston Housing Authority
Ophelia Basgal, Commissioner, Federal Millennial
Housing Commission
10:45
Break
11:00
SHOW ME THE MEASURES: Comprehensive Framework for Performance
Measures and Evaluation Strategies for Public Housing Using
the Logic Model Methodology (Lessons for Funders and Contractors)
Using the Logic Model, discuss best practice outcome measures
that can be applied to assess program performance. Discuss
end outcomes for specific missions, while illustrating the
linkage between outcomes, strategies, outputs and inputs.
• Develop a framework for measuring the performance
of housing and community development programs: designing,
implementing and effectively using performance indicators
• Master best practices in performance measurements
from leading housing partnerships
• Utilize logic modeling: linking end outcomes to
specific program activities
Felipe Monroig,
Director of Consulting, The Performance Institute
12:00
Luncheon Discussion: Government Contract Ethics: Determine
Responsibilities and Ethical Obligations
• Educate yourself and your contracting staff about
contracting abuses
• Improve ways to eliminate waste, errors and other
common contracting pitfalls
• Examine common and efficient methods to avoid fraud
Christopher Yukins,
Associate Professor of Government Contract Law, The George
Washington University Law School
1:00
Essential Factors in Selecting a Contractor
• Learn to interpret past performance to predict future
results
• Determine the “Best Value” when presented
with a diversity of proposed services
• Tackle potential conflicts of interest
Michael Hoffman,
Director of Contracting and Outsourcing, The Performance
Institute
2:00
Measuring and Improving Financial Performance: Lessons Learned
from GAO’s Report on the Department of Housing and
Urban Development.
• Explore the actions HUD has taken to improve their
financial and information management systems
• Understand how HUD measures the performance of public
housing agencies and hear about those that are considered
“high risk”
• Examine the problems HUD encounters and how they
address those problems
Carl DeMaio, President,
The Performance Institute
3:00
Break
3:15
Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity (FHEO)
The FHEO office is responsible for monitoring fair lending,
partnerships, and fair housing laws, along with individual
self-sufficiency and other housing and community & individual
revitalization issues. How does this program affect your
locality? Do you comply with HUD's nondiscrimination requirements?
Join this discussion and share insight on common FHEO
challenges and how they have been overcome.
Maria Foscarinis,
Executive Director, National Law Center on Homelessness
and Poverty
4:15
Adjourn Day One
