Welcome

Advocate – NAA’s annual advocacy conference – is the prime opportunity to meet with your representatives by joining rental housing suppliers, property managers, owners and operators in Washington, D.C.

Advocate 2025 will be March 25-26, 2025, with NAA Governance meetings continuing March 27-28, 2025. Registration will open in November.

Questions?

Contact [email protected] or call 833-86-MYNAA.

Schedule

Please Note: This is the 2024 Advocate schedule and is for reference only. The 2025 Advocate Schedule will be released when registration opens in November.

Tuesday, March 12

 

9 a.m. – 4 p.m.

Leadership Lyceum (Invitation Only)

10:30 a.m. – 12 p.m.

NSC Executive Committee (Invitation Only)

11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m.

NAA Executive Committee (Invitation Only)

12:00 p.m. – 5 p.m.

Registration

1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

First Timers | Hill 101 Session

1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.

NAA & NSC Officers (Invitation Only)

1:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.

Lobby Day Materials Center

2 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.

Issues Briefing and Mock Hill Training

4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Keynote Speaker

5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.

Board of Directors Reception (Invitation Only)

Wednesday, March 13

7:30 a.m. – 10 a.m.

Lobby Day Materials Center

7:30 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Lobby Day Headquarters

7:30 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Lobby Day on Capitol Hill

8 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Registration

5 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.

Lobby Day Reception

Thursday, March 14

7:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.

8 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.

Registration

Operations Committee

8 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.

Governance (Invitation Only)

8:30 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.

8:30 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.

Affordable Housing

Apartmentalize Committee

9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Privatized Military Housing Roundtable

9:45 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.

Global Outreach Committee

9:45 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.

9:45 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.

Marketing & Communications Committee

Independent Rental Owners Committee

9:45 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.

NAAEI RPM Careers Committee

9:45 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.

Legislative Committee

11 a.m. – 12 p.m.

Membership Committee

11 a.m. – 12 p.m.

CAMT Advisory Board

12 p.m. – 1 p.m.

Investment Subcommittee (Invitation Only)

12 p.m. – 1 p.m.

Lunch On Your Own

1 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.

NAAEI Curriculum/Program Admin Committee

1:15 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.

NAA Budget & Finance

1 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.

National Suppliers Council

1 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.

Association Executive Council

2:45 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.

Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Committee

2:45 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.

NAAPAC Board of Trustees

2:45 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.

NAAEI Budget & Finance Committee

2:45 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.

Technology Committee

2:45 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.

Next Gen Committee

4 p.m. – 5 p.m.

NAAPAC Ambassadors

4 p.m. – 5 p.m.

Nominating Committee

4 p.m. – 5 p.m.

4 p.m. - 5 p.m.

Privatized Military Housing Committee

#NAA Gives Committee

4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.

4 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

NAAEI Board of Directors

State Affiliate AE Forum

5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.

NAAPAC Happy Hour

(Sponsored by the National Suppliers Council)

Friday, March 15

 

8 a.m. – 11 a.m.

Registration

8 a.m. 9 a.m.

Board Breakfast

9:15 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.

Region Meetings 

10:30 a.m. – 12 p.m.

Board of Directors Meeting

Resources

Scheduling and Holding a Hill Visit

Hill visits with your members of Congress will be organized by your NAA affiliate and will likely be subject to additional restrictions from Congress. 

If you are interested in participating in a meeting, first register for the Advocate event and indicate your intent to participate in meetings on Capitol Hill. We will be advising affiliates of their registered members on a regular basis.

Affiliates should see these resources for scheduling Hill Visits:

Sample House Meeting Request Letter

Sample Senate Meeting Request Letter

Meeting Feedback

Feedback from your meeting is critical to NAA’s advocacy efforts! 

Questions?

Contact Seth Turner at sturner@naahq.org

Travel

Hotel

Grand Hyatt Washington

1000 H St NW

Washington, DC 20001

Getting There

Airports

  • Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA): 4 miles to hotel
  • Dulles International Airport (IAD): 25 miles to hotel
  • Baltimore/Washington International Airport (BWI): 31 miles to hotel

Train

  • Washington Union Station (Amtrak): 1.5 miles to hotel

Metro

  • The nearest metro station is Metro Center Station, accessible on the Red, Orange, Silver and Blue lines. To access the hotel from the metro, exit Metro Center Station from the 11th Street exit, use the escalators to go up to H Street and enter the hotel through the front doors.

Parking

  • Self-Park Garage: 10th St NW between H and G streets. $45 daily.
  • Valet Parking is available at the front drive off of H Street NW. The cost is $62.00 per day.

Experience Washington, D.C.

Check out everything there is to see and do in the nation’s capital!

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