Como están? Hope everyone is making their plans to meet up in Washington D.C. next month! I was just there last week for meetings with the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) and Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), to discuss some of the issues I’ve heard from many of you that are impacting prospective Latino homebuyers.
U.S. saw 277,000 new Hispanic homeowners in 2019, now accounting for more than 51% of the growth in U.S. homeownership since 2009, according to the National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals® (NAHREP®) and new Census Bureau data.
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been asked the question: What does the National Advocacy Committee (the NAC) stand for? The answer is simple, the NAC exists in order to advocate for public policy that is directly tied to our mission, advancing sustainable Hispanic homeownership.
I’m still buzzing from this weekend’s Super Bowl performance by our Latina powerhouses J-Lo and Shakira. Sidenote, Shakira is my favorite artist/celebrity of all time.
Que onda mi gente? Has someone at an event made you text NAHREP to 50457 recently? Have you filled out your profile to join our National Advocacy Committee by clicking on this link? Are you asking yourself, ok pues I did it, ahora que? Well… congratulations and welcome to the National Advocacy Committee!
Welcome to 2020, a new year and a new decade. It’s the year of Sara Rodriguez’s presidency and in her own words, “the year to do some universe changing stuff.” For those of you who just joined the National Advocacy Committee: Bienvenidos!
I hope everyone is taking deep breaths and staying warm as we head into the holidays. I just wanted to drop a quick note and wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. I’m headed out of the country for three weeks but will be back with a vengeance in 2020.
Gary Acosta is a tall man. Speaking literally, he is six-foot-three-inches in height. Speaking figuratively, he sees eye to eye with giants. “I’ve always been attracted to people who have the capacity to unabashedly think big,” Acosta says.
When I think of citizenship, or the embodiment of what it means to be a U.S. citizen, I think of my grandmother my Mama Panchita. She was this adorable viejita, with a smile that warmed my heart, always positive, always in a good mood. She used to make the BEST sopa de fideo and albondigas.
This year our Entre Familia rally visited cities in two states, Florida and New Jersey! At the Entre Familia Florida rally in Hollywood, Immediate Past President Daisy Lopez-Cid and Co-Founder & CEO Gary Acosta shared how NAHREP’s humble beginnings shaped its future member community, broadening it to the audience L’ATTITUDE is reaching today.