U.S. Housing Market to be Examined on June 9, 2011 at Standard & Poor's Housing Summit 2011: Boom, Bust, and Beyond

NEW YORK, May 31, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- What unusual factors are influencing the outlook for the U.S. housing market? If there is a double-dip, how low can it go? What does the evolving landscape of U.S. housing finance look like? What are the options for financing affordable housing in a challenging market? What are green building trends in housing construction? These are among the questions to be discussed at Standard & Poor's "Housing Summit 2011: Boom, Bust and Beyond" at The Roosevelt Hotel, New York, June 9.

The daylong summit will cover a comprehensive range of housing topics. Speakers are drawn from across industry, government, and academia and include:

• Shaun Donovan, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
• Eric Belsky, Executive Director, Joint Center for Housing Studies, Harvard University
• Thomas R. Gleason, Executive Director, MassHousing Finance Group
• Kent Hiteshew, Managing Director, J.P. Morgan's Housing Finance Group, Public Finance Department
• Jerry Howard, President and CEO, National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)
• Christopher J. Mayer, Senior Vice Dean and Paul Milstein Professor of Real Estate, Finance & Economics Division, Research Director, Columbia Business School
• Jeff Mezger, President and CEO, KB Home
• Diana Olick, CNBC Real Estate Reporter
• Robert Partlow, Senior Vice President, Consumer Bank Portfolio, Sun Trust Bank
• Anthony "Tuck" Reed, Senior Vice President of Capital Markets, Wells Fargo Home Mortgage
• Chuck Robida, Chief Scientist, Experian
• Chris Russell, Senior Policy Advisor to Congressman Scott Garrett (RNJ), and the Subcommittee on Capital Markets and Government Sponsored Entities
• Robert Shiller, Arthur M. Okun Professor of Economics, Yale University, Co-founder of S&P/CaseShiller Home Price Indices
• Stockton S. Williams, Senior Advisor for Urban Policy, DOE, formerly Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable Housing, HUD
• Mark A. Willis, Resident Research Fellow, New York University, Furman Center for Real Estate & Urban Policy
• Howard Zucker, Partner, Hawkins Delafield & Wood, LLP

In addition, speakers at the Summit from across Standard & Poor's parent company, The McGraw-Hill Companies, include:

• Matthew Albrecht, Associate, Financial Institutions, Standard & Poor's Ratings Services
• Harvey Bernstein, Vice President, Industry Insights & Alliances, McGraw-Hill Construction
• David Blitzer, Chairman, S&P Index Committee
• Erkan Erturk, Ph.D. Senior Director, Structured Finance, Standard & Poor's Ratings Services
• Keith Fox, President, McGraw-Hill Construction
• Deven Sharma, President, Standard & Poor's
• Diane S. Westerback, Managing Director, Global Surveillance Analytics, Structured Finance, Standard & Poor's Ratings Services
• Valerie White, Senior Director, Public Finance, Standard & Poor's Ratings Services

Registration information and a full conference agenda are available at: www.events.standardandpoors.com/housingsummit. For information from the summit, please follow us on Twitter: @standardpoors, @mhconstruction, or @dave_guarino. The Twitter hashtag for the summit is #sphs11. You can also follow us on our new blog: www.HousingViews.com.

SOURCE Standard & Poor's

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