255 | Effective Landlord Engagement Strategies
Tracks
Workshop
| Wednesday, April 10, 2024 |
| 3:45 PM - 4:45 PM |
| Room 311-312 |
Session Overview
Housing-focused organizations are forced to spend uncompensated hours recruiting, developing, and maintaining relationships with property managers in their community. While this work is rewarding, it also can be frustrating. These providers are tasked with maintaining a relationship with the tenant and property manager, and often these two stakeholders can have competing interests. This training will provide real-life examples of how to develop best practices in recruiting and maintaining relationships in a housing first model with property managers and tenants.
Description
Housing-focused organizations are forced to spend uncompensated hours recruiting, developing, and maintaining relationships with property managers in their community. While this work is rewarding, it also can be frustrating. These providers are tasked with maintaining a relationship with the tenant and property manager, and often these two stakeholders can have competing interests. This training will provide real-life examples of how to develop best practices in recruiting and maintaining relationships in a housing first model with property managers and tenants.
Bhumika Dahal
Social Worker
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Presenter
Bhumika Dahal is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker at Central Texas Veterans Affairs Healthcare System in Austin, Texas. She is a Landlord Engagement Social Worker in Housing and Urban Development VA Supportive Housing (HUD-VASH) program. She supports landlord engagement effort and works as a VA liaison to community partners. She holds a Master of Science in Social Work (MSSW) from the University of Texas at Austin Steve Hicks School of Social Work.
Derek Holt
Homeless Programs Supervisor
Minnesota Department of Veterans Affairs
Presenter
Derek is the Homeless Program Supervisor on the Stable Housing Initiatives team at the Minnesota Department of Veterans Affairs (MDVA), the team in Minnesota that facilitates Minnesota’s plan to end Veteran homelessness. Additionally, he served in the Army during Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003. He holds a BA from University Of North Dakota with concentrations in Political Science, Nonprofit Leadership and Philosophy and a MA Project Management from Saint Mary’s University.
Colleen Salinas
Landlord Engagement Program Manager
Minnesota Assistance Council for Veterans
Presenter
Need bio
