Jacob R. Day

The National Council of State Housing Agencies gave it their 2026 Program Excellence Award for Home Ownership, Home Improvement and Rehabilitation, announced yesterday, October 13th, at their annual conference in Detroit.

And Maryland Housing and Community Development Secretary Jake Day went up and accepted it in person.

Walk me through what this program actually is, because vacant's reinvestment sounds like government speak, and I know our listeners want the plain version.

Fair.

So we had...

The housing secretary from the state of Maryland, Jake Day.

We had Ali Quinlan as a architect and developer in Fayetteville, Arkansas, works all over the country and is the president of the Incremental Development Alliance, which is a small, it's one of CNU's affiliate organizations that works to educate small scale developers all over the country.

Gosh, folks from the former assistant city manager, she just left this gig, but from the city of Kalamazoo, Michigan, which folks probably think, oh, like the big cities.