Visitor's Summary
The Public Housing Technical Resource Center is designed to provide professional development and experience exchange among individuals dedicated to a career in public housing.
Benefits Overview
The Tech Center offers a range of resources to in addition to our flagship publications In the News and the BUZZ.
The LIBRARY is an on-line resource of hundreds of documents that are operationally relevant to public housing agencies. Sample forms, policies and procedures are housed along with educational material on tax credit financing, aging in place, maintenance management, resident services, staff development, financial management, as a small example.
In support of EXPERIENCE EXCHANGE the Tech Center provides an ANSWER GENIE that responds to specific operational concerns within forty eight hours, a FORUM where directors can exchange thoughts, ideas, concerns and issues in a monitored setting, SURVEYS that can be initiated by both Tech Center staff and subscribers
Did you know that a public housing executive has to be knowledgeable and skillful in at least 15 different professions in order to fulfill the responsibilities of the job?
Public housing directors are in the real estate development business, they work as property managers for the most demanding form of residential housing, they serve the most challenging population of a municipality, they are quasi-public with a local accountability through a volunteer Board of Commissioners, and they work at the delivery end of an extraordinarily regulated federal delivery system. The base of knowledge that is required to be successful in this challenging field is deserving of strong professional development support. The Tech Center strives to make that support available using the most economical and efficient resource available, the power of the internet.
We know, as we are sure you do as well, that a fundamental component of every profession is the exchange of experience. We are committed to shared learning, not for the sake of public relations and image management as much as for advancement of professional competence. Providing effective leadership to a public housing agency is an extraordinarily complex challenge. Learning from the mistakes of others is imperative. There is no time to make all of the mistakes yourself. Because of the public nature of our work it can be difficult to discuss our failings with a sense of professional objectivity. The Tech Center is deliberately designed to provide a “protected” environment where public housing leaders can learn from each other without fearing social and political repercussions.