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ULL HABITAT FOR HUMANITY 3OTH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION On November 6th, our Edgewood, Vantage and BUDGETENERGYSUBSIDY
DEPARTMENT TALK

MidCity teams attended the 30th Anniversary
Celebration of Habitat for Humanity of Washington,
D.C. to celebrate all of the contributors, foundations,
corporations and 34,000 volunteers who help
2019 HIGHLIGHT
support this incredible organization. Habitat, who
is approaching their 200th home build, is best
Through Operating Cost Adjustment Factors
known for their work constructing and selling
(OCAF) and Mark-Up-To-Market (MU2M) renewals,
the department generated OVER $5,000,000 OF
low and moderate-income DC residents.
F affordable homes as well as building equity for 90+
NEW RENT REVENUE in 2019!
Thanks to Habitat for Humanity for enabling
us to #IMPROVEPEOPLESLIVES!
T HABITAT FOR HUMANITY BUILD DAYS ‘TIS THE SEASON TO GIVE! Our teams gathered together SECTION 8 230
BUDGETS
This September, our Edgewood and Vantage
with MidCity Development
teams traveled to Randle Highlands for our
CONTRACTS
PREPPED, CONVERTED
for two of our favorite annual
Habitat for Humanity build, where we spent
N two days with Americorps, putting up doors, events. At Fall Fest, we Fred Mifflin and Matt Bleier 25 PROPERTIES
renewed annually
AND LOADED
to MRI annually
shared some of our favorite
adding trim and sealing walls. We are so excited
Fred Mifflin and Matt Bleier head the department of Budget,
dishes and chose Holiday
to have been involved in such a fantastic
Energy and Subsidy. Fred celebrated his 35th year with Edgewood/
Wish Letters coordinated
opportunity and look forward to more in the
Vantage in January and Matt has been with the team for over
by Community Service
future. Thank you to all who came out!
E Extravaganza where we Foundation. In December, we 7 years now. As a small department in a big organization their reported to DC ENERGY BENCHMARKING annually
goal has always been the following:
enjoyed a delicious Dessert
• To help our site staff with budget, utility,and subsidy related
issues
$10M
EV held an ugly sweater contest, • To maximize rents with HAP contract renewals, buy energy $5M GAS 60
• To provide corporate staff at all levels with accurate and
ELECTRICITY/
intuitive budget templates, renew Section 8 contracts on time,
and assist with utility management and energy purchasing
and a raffle for those who
purchased on
contributed to the Holiday
at competitive pricing, assist with water conservation projects,
deregulated
Wish Letter Initiative. There’s
and to insure receipt of timely budgets and support as needed
UTILITY
market each year
nothing more rewarding
• To develop and maintain a strong partnership with our
ALLOWANCES
that giving back to our
Federal, State, and Local housing agencies
processed annually
communities!
CONFERENCE CLAMOR
NLHA AHMA WAY TO GO!
Fred Mifflin and
November’s Mid-Atlantic AHMA Conference was a great We would like to
Matt Bleier join
opportunity to network and learn. The week was filled with congratulate the following
Denise Muha at
sessions and workshops covering best practices for compliance employees on their
the National promotions. Each deserves
matters. We also had a kaHOOT participating in the Kahoot
Leased Housing special recognition for his
challenge session
Conference or her hard work, leadership
where we put our
(NLHA). Denise, and dedication to the success
gameshow skills
the Executive Vice of our teams!
to the test. We’re
President of NLHA, NAHRO
looking forward to LISA KISH Director of Marketing
was recently This year’s NAHRO conference, held in Texas in October, was an
applying these
inducted into The excellent opportunity to network with our industry partners and to AMY KRZESNIAK Director of Compliance
learnings to serve
Affordable Housing hear from leaders like Representative Joaquin Castro and Henry DARRYL YATES Director of Human Resources
our communities
Finance Hall of Cisneros. Topics covered during the event ranged from updated
and clients. program initiatives for REAC inspections to public housing and JENN MILLER HR Generalist / Recruiter
Fame. Created in 2006, the Hall of Fame recognizes
mixed-income/RAD conversions, as well as policy strategies on JASON SALAMON Senior Vice President
pioneers of the Affordable Housing industry for their
housing, health, and education. Our learnings will go a long way of Human Resources
leadership and contributions.
toward #IMPROVINGPEOPLESLIVES!