PHADA members are eligible for a 25 percent discount when subscribing to the Public Housing Technical Resource Center via the PHADA Alliance program.
The PHADA Alliance with the PHA Tech Center provides directors with a comprehensive list of web-based resources concerning public housing operations, ranging from a library containing more than 800 policies, forms and articles; a twice-weekly national news summary newsletter; monthly in-depth articles exploring such relevant topics as procedures for implementing property-based management and accounting; and much more.
The staff of the Tech Center believes dynamic leadership is critical to the success of public housing.
“We serve enterprising leaders as they work to improve their agencies,” said Joan Howell of the Public Housing Management Institute, which sponsors the Tech Center. “We believe public housing is the most cost-effective means for meeting the shelter needs of citizens who are not competitive for housing in the private marketplace, and we think it’s time to take a fresh look at what we do and how we go about doing it.”
The Tech Center may be found online at www.pha-resources.org. PHADA members are encouraged to take the free tour of the Tech Center’s many services, which include:
Answer Genie
The Answer Genie is a 48-hour e-mail response service. Ask any question about public housing operations and receive the best answer within two days. Questions are researched by the Tech Center staff and a team of advisors. The searchable Knowledge Database contains hundreds of questions and answers supplied by the Answer Genie.
Library
The Library is an online collection of more than 800 helpful documents.
Directors search, browse and download (or print) Library documents using the most up-to-date search engine available. Documents range from policy samples to checklists, procedures and manuals.
In The News
In The News is a twice-weekly email newsletter conveying a summary with links to internet articles of interest to the public housing executive director. The News Room is an archive of hundreds of news articles which can be searched, downloaded and used as a resource for ideas on how, or how not, to approach a problem.
The Buzz
The Buzz takes an in-depth look at important issues and concerns of interest to public housing directors, and convers such topics as property-based operations, how to reduce vacancy turnaround, components of a community image-building program, and more. The Buzz is delivered via e-mail once a month.
Workshops
The Tech Center provides for professional development through the Public Housing Management Institute, which offers workshops to help public housing leadership develop the means to guide their organizations—Board, staff and community—through the migration to a property-based operating structure.
The Tech Center is dedicated to providing its subscribers with the most cost-effective services available, all easily accessed from any computer connected to the internet.
To learn more, visit the Tech Center website at www.pha-resources.org.
