Community Investment Leaders to Discuss New Financing Tools for Affordable Housing and Community Development at National Affordable Housing Conference on October 3 in Boston.

Business Editors

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 28, 2001

Leaders in affordable housing and community development from Boston and elsewhere around the nation will discuss new financing solutions to the growing shortage of both affordable rental housing and homeownership at the annual meeting of the National Association of Affordable Housing Lenders (NAAHL) on October 3rd at the Sheraton Boston Hotel in Boston.

Speakers and panelists will include:

-- Michael Hatfield, FleetBoston Financial and Mayor's Blue Ribbon Panel on
Affordable Housing Finance, Boston

-- Joseph Flatley, President, Massachusetts Housing Investment Corporation

-- Mark Curtiss, Deputy Director, Massachusetts Housing Partnership

-- Conrad Egan, Director, Millennial Housing Commission

-- Jamie Gorelick, Vice Chair, Fannie Mae

-- David Parish, Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston

-- Bob Mooney, Assistant Director, FDIC

Major sponsors of the NAAHL conference are Bank of America, Citigroup CCDF, Community Preservation Corporation, Fannie Mae, FleetBoston Financial, Freddie Mac, JPMorgan Chase, Massachusetts Housing Investment Corporation, Washington Mutual and Wells Fargo.

NAAHL is the only national association devoted to supporting those who invest in private capital for low- and moderate-income communities: in affordable housing, small business, micro-enterprises, and community development.