The Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency announced that registration is open for its 2026 Housing Forum. The agency’s premier annual event brings together housing professionals, housing advocates and policymakers from across the Commonwealth.
The Housing Forum provides an opportunity for people working in the housing field to attend focused educational sessions and interact with their peers. More than 500 people are expected to attend, including developers, lenders, housing managers, housing advocates and government officials.
“The value of attending the Housing Forum is two-fold: You will learn about the current state of the housing industry and get to interact and learn from housing industry peers,” said PHFA Executive Director and CEO Robin Wiessmann. “We have worked hard to secure two tremendous keynote speakers and gather industry leaders for our educational sessions.”
The Forum will feature 20 educational sessions covering a wide range of timely topics, including affordable-housing development, housing-finance strategies, community revitalization, homeownership initiatives and policy updates.
The opening keynote speaker will be Elliott Eisenberg, Ph.D., chief economist for GraphsandLaughs, LLC. A returning Forum speaker due to his engaging and insightful analysis of economic trends, Eisenberg is widely known from his time as senior economist with the National Association of Home Builders. He also is known as the creator of the multifamily stock index, which tracks the total return of public firms principally involved in the ownership and management of apartments.
Thursday’s keynote speaker will be bestselling author and entrepreneur Joe Huff. Huff has launched and scaled multiple eight-figure businesses and helped transform more than 50,000 lives by supporting access to clean water, hearing aids and education.
The 2026 PHFA Housing Forum offers other benefits for attendees, including:
- An awards ceremony recognizing some of the state’s affordable-housing innovators;
- An evening networking event for reconnecting with colleagues and meeting new business associates;
- A special “Meet and Greet” hour so attendees can get to know PHFA staff with whom they interact but may never have met face-to-face;
- A vendor exhibit hall for learning about new housing-related products and services;
- A bus/walking tour of a newly constructed affordable-housing developments for seniors
Early bird pricing for the Housing Forum is only $195 through April 3. After that date, registration increases to $215.
Detailed information about the 2026 Housing Forum and registration is available at https://housingforum.phfa.org/.
