Topic for usea but one that were eager to have a conversation about and im hoping that this will be the first of a continuing conversation because the matters that were going to address this afternoon are taking on a degree of urgency. Theyve always been urgent, but i think, myself, that the urgency is growing. So thank all of you for coming. We have an excellent set of panelists here today for our discussion. We hope to have audience participation as well. Moderating todays session is mark wolfe. Mark will provide a discussion and will moderate the discussion on the need for Energy Assistance. He is an economist and is an expert on local and Regional Energy and housing financing. He has consulted regularly for federal, state foundation and nonprofit agencies. He is very experienced at testifying before congress, and he is the executive director of the National Energy assistance Directors Association. And the Energy Program consortium and is the Founding Partner of project energy saver
Heres representative maloney. Rep. Maloney hi. Im Carolyn Maloney and of the privilege of representing new york and the United States congressperson many of us member where we were when our nation was under attack. When planes hit the pentagon and the twin towers. An Incredible Group of heroes brought on a plane headed straight to washington, d. C. September 11, 2001 is a day that defined a generation, and forever changed our nation. We will remember the images of the tens of thousands of firefighters, peace officers, local and Law Enforcement officers, medical workers, construction workers, and other heroes who responded without hesitation when they heard the news. They put aside all thoughts of self, and rushed to ground zero, the pentagon, and the crashed flight. And they began to dig through the smoking ruins looking for survivors. And then four months afterwards, searching for the lost, and helping us recover. It has now been almost 18 years since that attack on our country. And t
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Now, i know that the end of the last panel, or the first panel, they got a little bit into credit risk, so they tried to take our territory, and this one should be better, so everyone should understand that. I just, maybe ill introduce the panelists first. It is going from my last, to the far left, mike calhoun first, the president for the center for responsible lending, and then dana ganford now the ceo of the Global Mortgage Group at rg capital. And lori goodman is next, here at the urnen institute, she is the Vice President for Housing Finance policy and then last is David Finkelstein who is the chief Investment Officer for analy capital management. And i think we start with lori who has a couple of slides, and will take us through some of the data on history and development in credit Risk Transfer. Yes, just for a very short time, i think you did such a good job of mentioning, credit Risk Transfer actually started in 2012. And the idea was to reduce the overall risk of fannie and f
Stakeholders and operators of this facility now and in the future. So, we certainly appreciated the opportunity to be able to come in here and assist tjpa in this effort and the scope that they have defined that well talk about. So the peer review process is a service that provides its members and others associated with the organization and it is a valuable resource. What it does is allows the opportunity to bring in highly experienced and knowledgeable professionals that are peers, you know, to the industry and really come and do a brief, deep dive into whatever the scope so we certainly appreciate the abilities for having our members be able to come in here and spend their time voluntarily and participate in these peer review processes. For the panel that conducted the peer review by reviewing documentation that was provided to us by tjpa, we did a we had some interviews and a series of briefings with staff and we also were able to go out and walk through the facility and really take