Apartment Trends Magazine November / December 2014 | Page 53

APARTMENT ADVOCATE
NATIONAL APARTMENT ASSOCIATION

NAA and NMHC Meet With HUD
Secretary on Rental Priorities
NAA and NMHC officers met with HUD
Secretary Julian Castro on Nov. 5 to congratulate
him on his confirmation and discuss the importance of the rental housing sector as HUD prioritizes its work.

Our primary message to the Secretary was
that a strong housing economy requires both a
healthy single-family and rental sector. During
the meeting we identified a number of reforms
HUD could make to reduce bureaucratic red tape
and make it easier for our members to create and
operate the rental housing 35 million Americans
rely on. We also emphasized the importance of
incentives over mandate ̰