Month: June 2019
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Kaiser Permanente Finds Homes for 250 Aging Homeless
In January of last year, Kaiser Permanente and Oakland-based Bay Area Community Services (BACS) partnered to find homes for 515 aging homeless residing in their hometown in order to tackle the Bay Area’s homeless problem. This month, Kaiser and BACS announced that they have found homes for 250 aging homeless, about half of their projected…
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2019 WHER Excerpt: Key Characteristics of Global Women Entrepreneurs
The six-volume 2019 Women in the Housing Ecosystem Report (WHER) will be released by the beginning of the third quarter. Attendees of the 2019 NAWRB Conference, Redefining Leadership, on August 4th-6th in Pasadena, CA, will get to hear expert industry leaders discuss the main topics from the report, including diverse leadership, homeownership, business ownership, aging…
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Introducing 2019 Conference Speaker Dr. Alexis Crow!
NAWRB’s 2019 Solutions.Housing.Equality SHETalk Speaker Dr. Alexis Crow is Lead, Geopolitical Investing practice, PwC Senior Fellow, Columbia Business School; Global Business and Economics, Atlantic Council. In her role, she is leading corporations and asset managers to capitalize on dislocations in order to profit and expand around the globe. Previously, she was Managing Director at New…
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California Has 17 of America’s 25 Least Affordable Housing Markets
A new report by real estate market database ATTOM Data Solutions finds that almost half of the country’s housing markets are less affordable than historical averages, which is a slight improvement from over three-quarters in the last quarter of 2018. Median home prices in the first quarter of 2019 were not affordable for wage earners…
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4.3 Million Homeowners Saved from Foreclosure Since Conservatorship
The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA)’s first quarter 2019 Foreclosure Prevention Report states that the Enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac completed 38, 968 foreclosure prevention actions in the first quarter of 2019. This brings the total number of foreclosure prevention actions since conservatorship in 2008 to 4,322, 804.
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U.S. Women More Likely to Have Multiple Jobs
Even though a majority of American workers are single jobholders, more workers are steadily holding more than one job in order to have another source of income, gain more experience and explore multiple interests. According to the U.S. Census Bureau’s Multiple Jobholders in the United States: 2013 report, which looks at characteristics of workers by…
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Happy Father’s Day 2019
NAWRB wishes you and your family a wonderful Father’s Day this Sunday, June 16th, 2019. The holiday was established in 1966 with President Lyndon Johnson’s proclamation designating the third Sunday in June as Father’s Day. The idea was influenced by a woman named Sonora Dodd in 1909, who wanted to honor her father, a widowed…
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Announcing the 2019 NAWRB Leadership Award Winners! Join us Aug. 5th in Pasadena
Women in the Housing & Real Estate Ecosystem (NAWRB) is proud to announce our winners of the NAWRB 2019 Leadership Awards! After weeks of reviewing incredible candidates, we narrowed it down to these exceptional women leaders who are utilizing their expertise, passion and drive to redefine leadership and facilitate additional growth in their industry and…
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Women Produced Four in 10 of Top Animated Films Since 2007
A new study by the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative looks inclusion in the film and TV animation industry, including increasing opportunities for women in leadership positions and challenges women minorities face as they go up the pipeline.
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DOL Announces $1.5 Million Fund for Women’s Apprenticeships & Job Opportunities
The U.S. Department of Labor announced that $1.5 million in grant funding is available to help recruit, mentor and retain women in apprenticeship programs and help women pursue careers in manufacturing, infrastructure, cybersecurity, health care and other industries. The grant will be administered by the Department’s Women’s Bureau and the Employment and Training Administration.