Prosperous Communities offers a series of Housing Leadership Development workshops and training programs. 

These programs are designed to provide housing professionals, board members, and community leaders with the knowledge they need to effectively address a housing crisis, implement housing solutions, and manage a housing organization in today’s environment. 

These programs provide an education in “how housing gets done” and in leadership techniques that can be used to create and preserve housing.

These courses are ideal for:

• The experienced professional who has become involved in housing and needs to quickly build his/her knowledge base;
• For up and coming housing professionals and non-profit and foundation staff who need to develop an expertise in housing;
• For elected municipal officials and staff who need a deeper insight into housing and housing processes.

All courses can be customized to cover your specific requirements.

Workforce Housing Solutions

This course focuses on housing solutions that can be used by housing professionals, board members and community leaders to help address the housing crisis in their communities.  The course combines lecture, discussion and applied problems in an interactive environment designed to have participants analyze and discuss the events occurring in their communities and participate in exercises focused on possible strategies to current issues.  This course may be structured as a one or two day program depending on need.

 Housing Leadership for the 21st Century

The course is designed to provide the housing professional with the leadership skills needed to succeed in today’s ever changing environment.  This one-day course focuses on the changing role of the housing professional as  communities face a foreclosure crisis, housing costs remain beyond the means of the middle class; and traditional government housing programs experience funding reductions.  Topic areas include creating an effective leadership team; partnering with businesses and the economic development community; building community and political will; leveraging community assets; and thinking outside the box - devising new and innovative solutions from within the community

Turning Ideas into Actions:  Developing and Implementing a Housing Strategic Plan

During this one-day hands-on course, the housing professional will learn the elements of a strategic plan; why a strategic plan is necessary as part of an effective housing intervention strategy; who to include in the strategic planning process; how to obtain consensus; and how to measure and publicize results.

Understanding Your Community: Collecting and Analyzing Housing and Demographic Data

One of the keys to an effective housing intervention is understanding the housing and demographic trends in the community.  This one-day course is designed to provide the housing professional with the tools necessary analyze housing markets and demographic and employment trends in their community.  The course focuses on using existing public data, as well as on methodologies for obtaining more detailed local data through surveys and interviews.

Additionally, for those wishing to build their housing expertise in an academic setting, Dr. Hettinger is the head of the Housing Development and Leadership Program and Bay Path College.  Click here for information on the Bay Path program.