Join MBA Pierce for the 2013 Housing Forum featuring guest speakers featuring NAHB Senior Economist David Crowe and WA Housing Alliance’s Michael Luis.

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  David Crowe is Chief Economist and Senior Vice President at the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB).   Dr. Crowe is responsible for NAHB’s forecast of housing and economic trends, survey research and analysis of the home building industry and consumer preferences as well as microeconomic analysis of government policies that affect housing. 

Dr. Crowe is also responsible for the development and implementation of an innovative model of the local economic impact and fiscal cost of new home construction, which has estimated the net impact of new housing in over 500 local markets.  Past research has concentrated on home ownership trends, tax issues, demographics, government mortgage insurance, local land use ordinance impacts and the impacts of housing on local economies. 

  Michael Luis is a consultant in public affairs and communications, based in the Seattle area. For the past 25 years he has been involved with a wide range of issues and leadership efforts that have affected the growth and development of the economy of the Seattle area. He serves as councilmember and Mayor of the city of Medina, Washington.  Mr. Luis will be providing anoverview of demographic and housing trends for Pierce County and the Puget Sound region as a whole and some thoughts on the factors that will drive housing in the next few years.

Mr. Luis holds master’s degree in International Affairs from the George Washington University and began his career managing the Export Task Force, the bipartisan free-trade caucus of the U.S. House of Representatives.