The 23rd Annual Affordable Housing and Community Development Conference will be hosted by the New York State Rural Housing Coalition, Inc. at the Holiday Inn, Auburn, NY. The Coalition's annual gathering has become one of the largest conferences in the nation for rural housing providers, economic developers and community development officials.
 

Click here for a printable copy of the the 2002 Conference brochure. Or, for more information on this year's conference, call 1-888-787-2569 (toll-free) or (518) 458-8696. You can also email us at: david@ruralhousing.org.

Workshops and Tracks
Thank you for your interest in the Rural Housing Coalition's annual conference and your suggestions for the workshops. The planning for this year's conference workshops is completed. A finalized schedule is available here.

Registration
To register for the 22nd Annual Affordable Housing & Community Development Conference, click here for a registration form which you may print to mail or fax to us. If you fax the form, your registration will be confirmed when we recieve your payment. If you elect to mail it in, fill in all the appropriate information, print the page, and send the form along with your payment to the New York State Rural Housing Coalition at the address provided below.

Payment Method & Information: Make checks payable to the New York State Rural Housing Coalition, Inc. and send with completed registration form(s) to:

On-site registration will also be available. For additional information, contact the Coalition by phone (888) 787-2569 (in-state) or (518) 458-8696 (out-of-state), by fax (518) 458-8896 or via email to: david@ruralhousing.org.

Lodging
The conference will be held at the Holiday Inn. The web address is: www.holiday-inn.com/auburnny. A block of conference rooms will be held at special conference rates of $85.00 per night. Confernce attendees need to call 315-253-4531 to make their reservations, and must use the three-letter code RHC. This code must be mentioned when making their reservations. Early reservations are strongly recommended.

Alert: Holiday Inn Sold Out for Some Conference Dates!
All rooms in the Coalition's room block at the Auburn Holiday Inn have been reserved for one of the nights of the October conference. If you run into a problem in trying to reserve a hotel room for your conference stay, please call David Rusting at the Coalition at (518) 458-8696, ext 10. He will be making arrangements with an overflow hotel nearby. 

Attention All Guests of the Holiday Inn
If you need to go on line or just use the phone, please remember that Syracuse is a long distance phone call, although it is in the 315 area code. All long distance calls have a surcharge of $3.50. There is an additional 45% markup on all long distance calls. The following prefixes are local calls: Auburn: 237,252,253,255,258,282,283,294,370,406,604,612,702,and 704 Cato: 626 Moravia: 497 Owasco:784 Poplar Ridge: 364, 563 Port Byron: 776 Skaneateles: 217,291,554,685,707 Union Springs: 889 Weedsport: 834 All other calls are a toll charge. Almost all internet connections are long distance, unless you dial a toll-free number. 

ADA Considerations
If you have any special needs or requirements, including those addressed by the Americans With Disabilities Act, please call or send email to the Coalition by August 16th.

2002 Conference Sponsors
The Rural Housing Coalition's Annual Affordable Housing and Community Development Conference is one of the premier training and networking events in the nation for rural community development professionals. The conference simply would not exist without the generous support of our sponsors - Corporations; Lending Institutions; Government Agencies; and Philanthropic Organizations who contribute to the revitalization of rural New York by underwriting the expense of putting on the Conference. Click here to see a list of this year's generous Sponsors.