Working out contract provisions, dividing up tasks among a project team, asking for a raise, agreeing on variances with Planning---negotiations are a daily part of life for affordable housing professionals. Join the Emerging Leaders Peer Network to develop your skills in this critical area. In an intensive negotiations workshop, Haas School of Business PhD candidate Daron Sharps will help you study and practice the basics of negotiation - tactics and strategies. You will begin negotiating based on shared interests, consider negotiation's…

Feeling strained? Don’t be! Join Holmes Structures as they lay the foundation out for you with this Structural Engineering 101 session, the first of ELPN’s Housing Architecture 101 series this year. Learn about load, foundation types, lateral vs. vertical, the properties of concrete vs. wood vs. steel and how they all work together, and so much more! We suspect you’ll leave feeling stress free! Lunch will be provided.Please note: If cost is an issue, contact James Vossoughi at James.S.Vossoughi@chase.com as we do not…

Ever wondered what happens behind the curtain at MOHCD? How do the Housing Development folks interact with the Community Development folks? What’s an Annual Monitoring Report (AMR)? What does it mean to be a “Mayor’s Office,” anyway? How is MOHCD tracking on its goal of creating 10,000 affordable homes by 2020 and 30,000 homes in the City overall? What are all of the sources of funds for building and preserving affordable housing in SF? MOHCD staff will answer all these…

Join the Emerging Leaders Peer Network (ELPN) on April 3rd for "Waterproofing Walls and Windows: Building Envelope 101."What are the components of an exterior wall? How do we ensure water can’t make it through the spots where a window joins to a wall? What is flashing and lathing? Project Coordinator Kim Luu of leading waterproofing consulting firm Marx Okubo Associates, Inc. will answer these questions and more in this 101-level training on waterproofing, wall assemblies, and the components of a…