Samantha Sowards

Ms. Samantha Sowards has been a full-time trainer and consultant at NMA since 2008 and currently serves as the Senior Manager of Professional Services. She works with hundreds of housing authorities, management companies, state agencies, and investors each year in the areas of program operations, policy development, training, file reviews/approvals, and compliance. She is a subject matter expert and speaks nationally on a wide array of low-income housing programs, including the housing choice voucher (HCV), public housing, project-based voucher (PBV), HOME, project-based rental assistance (PBRA), and low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC) programs as well as the Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD) program and other public housing repositioning programs. Ms. Sowards is NMA’s senior subject matter expert on regulations and implementation of HOTMA. She also specializes in compliance for former public housing projects undergoing dispositions and acq/rehab under the LIHTC program.

HCC25 Session: Implementing HOTMA in Housing Credit Properties

HCC24 Session: Understanding HOTMA Changes, Part 3