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Cushing Dolbeare is the recipient of the McAuley Institute’s Lifetime Achievement Award. Dolbeare, founder of the National Low Income Housing Coalition and currently a member of the Millennial Housing Commission, was cited for her seminal contributions to the field of housing and community development. Nicolas P. Retsinas, director of Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies, has received the National Low Income Housing Coalition’s 2001 Housing Leadership Award. Former HUD Deputy Secretary Saul Ramirez, Jr. will become the new executive director of the National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials (NAHRO) in January. Ramirez has been working in real estate finance with Greystone and Co. since leaving HUD at the conclusion of the Clinton Administration. Conrad E. Egan has been chosen to succeed Robert J. Reid, executive director of the National Housing Conference (NHC) since 1993, who will retire at the end of 2002. Egan, NHC’s director of policy, is serving as executive director of the U.S. Millennial Housing Commission, on leave of absence from NHC. Tony Brown has been appointed director of the U.S. Treasury’s Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) Fund. Previously, Brown served as a senior vice president for Bank of America in Jacksonville, Florida. Stan Keasling of Mercy Housing has taken over the reins as board president of Housing California, replacing Dianne Spaulding, executive director of the Non Profit Housing Association of Northern California, who stepped down after serving five years. Mike Herald has also resigned as the advocacy group’s executive director. Herald had served with Housing California since 1992, becoming executive director in 1998. Sarah Sheon Gerecke has been named chief operating officer of Neighborhood Housing Services (NHS) in New York. Previously, Gerecke served for seven years as vice president of housing programs with Westhab, Inc. in Westchester County, New York. She is also an adjunct professor at the NYU Wagner School of Public Service. Keith Simon of Design Workshop and Eric Nusland of Studio E Architects have won the 2001 American Institute of Architects/HUD Secretary’s Community Building by Design Award. The architects were cited for their work on Arbolera de Vida, a new residential development of the Sawmill Community Land Trust in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Arbolera de Vida is designed to provide long-term affordable housing and economic opportunities to low-income families. |
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| Organizations & Initiatives | Seedco has been awarded an initial grant of $2.15 million from the September 11th Fund to provide three- or six-month short-term renewable loans, with no interest or fees, to nonprofit organizations directly affected by World Trade Center attack. The fund is sponsored by the United Way of New York City and The New York Community Trust. Eligible nonprofits must be able to show that the disruption in their operations was due to the attack and that they were financially viable before September 11th. Interested organizations should contact Catherine Gill (212-204-1301) or Peter Oliver (212-204-1345) at Seedco, or fax a request for an application to 212-473-0357. HUD has awarded more than $400 million in funding to the Chicago Housing Authority (CHA). Of that, $300 million will give the agency new bonding authority, which it will use to leverage private funding to add to its $1.6 billion federally-funded HOPE VI plan. The additional funds will allow the CHA to complete the rehabilitation of 9,500 senior residential units and about 2,700 scattered-site units by late 2003. HUD also approved the agency’s application for $70 million to redevelop the Robert Taylor Homes and Rockwell Gardens housing developments. (The Chicago Sun-Times, 10/4/01) NBC-TV’s “Dateline NBC” took top honors in the 2001 Excellence in Urban Journalism Award competition for their documentary, “Breaking Away,” which followed the lives of four Los Angeles families after they joined HUD’s Moving to Opportunity program in 1992. The award, conferred annually by The Enterprise Foundation and The Freedom Forum, honors outstanding coverage and understanding of the challenges facing inner-city America and the people who live there. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has made a $2 million program-related investment in the Neighborhood Capital Corporation for predevelopment and interim development loans to NeighborWorks® organizations that are members of the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation’s Multifamily Initiative. The Initiative’s goal is to provide an additional 10,000 units of affordable multifamily housing by 2004. The Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta (FHLBA) has created a $1 million program to provide member financial institutions with recoverable grants for affordable housing and community economic development projects. The projects must meet certain eligibility criteria, be sponsored by an experienced nonprofit with a strong track record, be deemed to have a strong chance to succeed, and be located in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, or the District of Columbia. FHLBA, 200-536-9650. |
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