📍 Washington, D.C. | 🗓 June 15-17, 2025
Get ready for two action-packed days of policy discussions, impactful advocacy, and networking with industry leaders and lawmakers. This is your chance to make a real difference in veteran homeownership policies!
THE NATIONAL LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE
Lynn Jabs
Chairwoman
Glenn Perez
Committee Member
Mathew Pfeiffer
Committee Member
Eric Gardner
Committee Member
Leah Karstens
Committee Member
Jerry Cox
Committee Member
Conference Highlights
✅ Opening Session: 2025 Policy Position Presentation
🎤 Hear from Congressional Staffers & VA Housing Experts on key legislative issues affecting veterans.
✅ Mortgage-Free Home Donation
🏡 Witness a life-changing moment as a veteran family receives a mortgage-free home, sponsored by Bank of America.
✅ Capitol Hill Visits (2 Days!)
🏛 Advocate for veterans’ housing policies directly with lawmakers—this is your chance to be heard!
✅ Legislative Debrief Reception
🍸 Connect with fellow attendees, share advocacy stories, and celebrate the day’s impact.
✅ Dinner Gala at the Military Women’s Memorial
🎖 Honor the contributions of over three million women in military history in a powerful closing event.
OUR SPONSORS
2025 POLICY POSITIONS
VAREP Members, Industry Experts, and Housing Advocates—if you’re passionate about making homeownership possible for veterans, you need to be here.
LEGISLATIVE IMPACT
When our members, VAREP Nation, policymakers, and agencies unite, meaningful change
occurs for veterans and servicemembers.
Victories
2019 Blue Water Vietnam Navy Act: Revised funding to protect bonus entitlements, maintain VA Funding Fee waivers for disabled veterans, and extend benefits to Purple Heart recipients on active duty.
2019 NDAA Amendment: Collaborated to mandate financial literacy training for servicemembers.
2019 Economic Growth Act: Close VA Refinance Program loophole, ending predatory lending against veterans.
2019 Protecting Affordable Mortgages for Veterans Act: Corrected an oversight that disqualified over 3,000 VA loans.
2020 URLA Update: Modified the Universal Residential Loan Application to include a military service question, simplifying veteran identification in home loan applications.
2020 Veteran Home Loan Disaster Recovery Act: Contributed to legislation allowing new VA loans for homes damaged by major disasters.
In Progress
2023 Grant of Federal Charter to Veterans Association of Real Estate Professionals - H.R. 3240 ǀ S. 2964
2023 VA Loan Informed Disclosure Act: Mandates a "side-by-side" comparison of conventional, FHA, and VA home loans to offer potential homebuyers clarity and transparency - H.R. 4335 ǀ Senate: S.2496
2023 Fair Housing Improvement Act: Prohibiting housing discrimination based upon source of income, veteran status, or military status - H.R. 2846 ǀ S.1267
ACTION
VAREP Policy Conference in Washington D.C. – Held in June of each year.
The event brings together VAREP Members, VAREP Nation, industry leaders, and policymakers to tackle housing and economic challenges facing veterans and servicemembers. Attendees engage in expert panels, advocate for policies supporting veteran homeownership, and have the unique chance to meet with lawmakers on Capitol Hill.