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Last week I attended NCSHA’s HFA Institute in Washington, D.C. This meeting is held annually in January and provides program-specific training modules for industry professionals and state allocating agencies focusing on legislative and regulatory updates, program basics and hot topics.

While my Travois colleagues in Kansas City undoubtedly count the Royals’ World Series win as the highlight from 2015, I took a different route when I reflected on the past 12 months.

Multimedia artist Wendy Red Star (Crow) recently visited Kansas City to celebrate the opening of her exhibition “Parading Culture (Tokens, Gold & Glory)” at local gallery Haw Contemporary. It can be seen through Feb. 27.

While one Maine tribe recently completed rehabilitating its first housing project, another will soon begin a new one in the same county, both helped by awards of Affordable Housing Program (AHP) funds.

2015 was a landmark year for Travois, and we hope for many of you. We celebrated our 20th anniversary, and our clients had milestone achievements — most notably the highest pricing ever paid to a tribal project ($1.