OATHA at a glance.....
The Organization for the Advancement of Technology in Housing Agencies is a group that was formed to assist and support Public and Indian Housing professionals to successfully identify, implement and integrate technology into organizational business processes.
By sharing ideas, experience, and technology solutions to common housing problems, pooling resources for education and training, members can implement the latest technologies in the housing market and offer effective assistance and support to all Housing Agency members in the industry.
The membership is not vendor specific. As a group, the membership is more easily accessible, presents a single voice and provides greater strength to discuss problems and concerns with vendors and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
OATHA provides resources that allow the membership to get answers, get support and get connected to other agencies. Sharing information, as a group, allows members to explore multiple methods of doing things, provides for more efficient, effective operations and is especially beneficial for smaller agencies with limited staff.
The membership stays connected through conferences, subject specific mailing lists, a website, and discussion forums. OATHA offers the resources to examine hardware, software, exchange thoughts, ideas and share solutions. By optimizing the available technology information to all housing agencies, members are better equipped to make sound, cost effective decisions.
If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to contact us.
New Membership Benefit
At our conference in March, OATHA decided to begin having regularly scheduled Webinars for our members. These webinars will include topics similar to those topics covered in our sessions at our annual conference. Some sessions will be conducted by HUD, some will be conducted by our vendors, and some will be conducted by our members.
Our first Webinar will feature Nicole Faison of HUD and is scheduled for April 28, 2011 at 2:00 EST. This webinar will include a presentation and question/answer session with Nicole and is scheduled for 90 minutes. This Webinar is free to both members and non-members to showcase our new membership benefit in these webinars. (All future webinars will be available only to paid members.)
To register for this Webinar click here. If you have any questions, contact Jim Loos at 402-434-5568 or email at jiml@l-housing.com. Don't miss this opportunity hear directly from HUD, as well as to ask Nicole any questions you may have!
2011 Conference Highlights
Our 2011 conference was held at the Wyndham Lake Buena Vista Florida, (in Downtown Disney). Our agenda again included an entire day of sessions presented by HUD, as well as sessions presented by vendors and other members of OATHA. For the number of people in attendance at our conference, we feel our indivdiual sessions were very well attended.
For fun, we again hosted a Welcome Reception on Sunday night and enjoyed a fabulous private event at Disney Studios. Our event included after 2:00 park tickets, special seating for the Lights MotorsStunt Spectacular, a private viewing of the Soarin Attraction and a private viewing location for the end of night fireworks display called Illuminations.
Many of our presenters have agreed to make their session presentation available via our website. Click here for the presentations.
