How can you develop a strategy to preserve and rehabilitate aging and/or distressed affordable housing developments? Learn how developers, community organizations, political leaders, and homeowner institutions in Woodlawn have worked together to do just that and revitalized the community in the process. Visit still-existing apartments in the Grove Parc Section Eight housing development and see how they are being transformed into Woodlawn Park, a mixed-income, mixed-use development. Transportation: Motorcoach, walking.
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Felicia M. Dawson
Pres of Affordable Housing
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Bio: Currently, I am Dir. of Community Engagement for POAH. I am responsible for all external connections related to elected officials, community/neighborhood leaders and residents, all community programming for all projects in the Chicagoland area. My past work includes working as the liaison between community, development, property management and residents for a major public housing transformation project here in Chicago. Prior to that I ran the Neighborhood office for a local foundation where I was responsible for the day to day operations of the satellite, providing grant support to the Family strengthening and asset-based development focus area, managing a neighborhood grant initiative and a 1000 account IDA (Individual development Account) program. Finally, prior to that I managed housing development for Bethel New Life, Inc. including their first single-family development project totally $2.5million; additionally I managed their Housing resource center that provided training to residents in the pursuit of homeownership.
Education: I have a Bachelors of Arts in Urban Planning/Affairs from the University of Missouri - Kansas City and I have a Masters In Public Administration - with a special emphasis on Urban Administration
Past Assignments: I have presented at various conferences in Washington, D.C. at HUD related to resident/community engagement; I have presented at various Chicago Housing Authority seminars regarding commnity development and Resident Engagement. I have presented at the Black Management Assocation along with the Real Estate Club of the kellogg School of Management, Urban Revitalization workshop.
Lawrence E. Grisham
Managing Deputy Commissioner
City of Chicago
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Bio: Managing Deputy Commissioner, Dept of Housing & Economic Development managing the Housing Bureau. Prior positions also included Senior Vice-President at the Habitat Company and Senior Vice President for Operations for Bethel New Life, a community developement corporation on Chicago's West Side.
Abbey O. Ogunbola
HUD
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Bio: Currently a Grant Manager and Choice Neighborhoods Implementation Team Coordinator with the Department of Housing and Urban Development's OPHI - HUD's HOPE VI/Mixed-Finance and Choice Neighborhoods Programs Formerly Portfolio Manager, LISC's National Equity Fund, Chicago, IL and Project Manager, Cottage Development, San Clemente, CA
Education: MBA Chapman University, Orange California MPA Cal State, Long Beach, California B.Sc. Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
William Eager
Pres of Affordable Housing
William W. Towns
Assistant Vice President
University of Chicago
Molly Ekerdt
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Bio: Project Manager at Preservation of Affordable Housing, Inc.
Education: MCP, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009; BA, Grinnell College, 2002
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