CREF Track: Working Lunch - Invitation Only

Wednesday, April 15, 2026 12:00 PM-1:30 PM
Lunch Networking Opportunities
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This working lunch session examines the state and local policy challenges shaping the multifamily market, including rent control, zoning barriers, density restrictions, and other regulations that limit supply and raise costs. MBA’s advocacy work and the Housing Solutions Coalition’s push for long term, practical affordability strategies take center stage.

Speakers

Speakers

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    Patricia Baumer

    Director, Housing Solutions Coalition

    Patricia Baumer is the Director of the Housing Solutions Coalition. She is responsible for monitoring and coordinating local policy efforts across the country that affect HSC members. Baumer works with coalition partners and outside organizations to promote pro-housing policies and works to educate lawmakers about the harm of anti-housing policies. She comes to HSC from the Greater Boston Real Estate Board (GBREB), where she led numerous successful advocacy campaigns to support a thriving real estate community in a highly challenging legislative and regulatory environment. As a veteran lobbyist on Beacon Hill, she previously worked for the Massachusetts Association of REALTORS and the Massachusetts House of Representatives.

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    William Kooper, MPA

    Vice President of State Government Affairs and Industry Relations, Mortgage Bankers Association

    William Kooper is Vice President of State Government Affairs and Industry Relations at the Mortgage Bankers Association and in that capacity leads MBA's advocacy efforts at the state and local level as well as MBA's engagement with mortgage banking associations across the country. William is responsible for the MBA State Legislative and Regulatory Committee, staffs the State Association Relations Committee and leads the State Relations Initiative -- MBA's program to partner with state associations to align business development, communications and advocacy interests.

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    Kimberly Taynton

    Vice President, BWE

    Kimberly Taynton is a MAP-approved Underwriter with more than 26 years of HUD-insured financing experience. She has focused on HUD-insured financing throughout her career including a prior position at the U.S. Department of HUD where she was the Supervisory Project Manager for Multifamily Development in Arizona. She began her multifamily development career in 1999 specializing in land entitlement through construction and operations, using HUD-insured 221(d)(4) financing for the apartment projects. Kim is often asked to present on multifamily topics at conferences and has been a panelist or presenter on topics such as affordable housing, environmental due diligence, HUD loan programs, regulatory requirements and Davis-Bacon. She is also the co-leader of the MBA's BTR Working Group

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