Housing on Merit’s Executive Director, Jennifer Litwak, was a featured speaker at the Council of Development Finance Agencies’ (CDFA) Intro Housing Finance WebCourse on May 22. Attendees were given an introduction to the complex world of housing, and exposed to the terminology and landscape of the housing space in community development. The course covered a multitude of diverse capital sources within housing deals and innovative case studies from across the country on how investment in an effective housing financing strategy can help drive the success of local economic development. Ms. Litwak joined an expert panel to examine the numerous and diverse programs available for housing development at the state and local level, and discuss the programs they accessed for their housing projects and how it worked into their overall financing structure.