NAHB’s senior vice president discusses the housing market index and how it affects the stock market.

From the show floor at the NMHC conference: EVGO is the first network of electric charging stations. Learn about how they work in the multifamily community.

Longtime seniors housing real estate expert Mel Gamzon offers insights into the seniors housing market. 2011 was a big year for seniors housing and healthcare REITs, and Mel explores what strategies companies are likely to develop in 2012.

David Abbenante, President of HRI Management, talks about how the company has helped rebuild New Orleans by turning abandoned industrial buildings into thriving multi-housing communities.

States under fiscal duress are rethinking traditional urban redevelopment models. In California the Redevelopment Agency system is, barring state supreme court reversal of earlier decisions, expected to virtually disappear. An Urban Land Institute panel of experts discusses how cities, developers and investors will operate in a post-RDA world.

Emerging Trends crafters Jonathan Miller and Stephen Blank discuss this year’s findings with MHN TV during the ULI Fall Meeting.

A video recap of the well attended 2011 MHN Excellence Awards. The awards ceremony and cocktail party was held on September 19 in Ohm, a neighborhood pioneering Douglaston Development community in New York City’s West Chelsea neighborhood. Make sure to drop by in 2012 if you couldn’t make it this year!

MHN chats with Steve Radcliffe, Managing Director – Asset Services at McDowell Properties, at the NMHC Apartment Operations and Technology Conference in Dallas. Radcliffe shares observations about keeping up with technology and a number of trends facing the apartment industry.

Susan Ansel, Executive Vice President CEO of Gables, shares her takeaways from the NMHC Apartment Operations and Technology Conference in Dallas. Ansel touches on a number of trends such as the integration of IT into all other facets of the apartment business, the need to keep all employees current on the latest technology and the challenges of change management within the organization.