Wednesday, December 4, 2013 I 8:00 - 10:00 a.m. I New York University School of Law I #NYChousing PANELISTS: Richard D. Baron Co-founder, Chairman, and CEO of McCormack Baron Salazar Paul Graziano Executive Director of the Housing Authority of Baltimore City and Commissioner of the Baltimore City Department of Housing and Community Development Sandra B. Henriquez Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Mary Pattillo Harold Washington Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at Northwestern University; New York University Straus Fellow, 2013-2014 MODERATOR: Ingrid Ellen Gould (Moderator) Co-Director, NYU’s Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy; Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy, NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service FURMAN CENTER MOELIS INSTITUTE FOR REAL ESTATE & URBAN POLICY FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING POLICY NEW YORK UNIVERSITY NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW • WAGNER SCHOOL OF PUBLIC SERVICE SCHOOL OF LAW • WAGNER SCHOOL OF PUBLIC SERVICE @FurmanCenterNYU I www.FurmanCenter.org I #NYChousing ABOUT THE PANELISTS RICHARD D. BARON Co-founder, Chairman, and CEO of McCormack Baron Salazar Richard D. Baron is co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of McCormack Baron Salazar (MBS), which redevelops neighborhoods in inner-city areas across the country. In the past thirty years, MBS has developed 157 projects with costs of $2.7 billion. It has developed more than 17,000 housing units and one million square feet of retail/ commercial space. MBS has closed 55 phases of HOPE VI developments in 15 cities involving 7,739 units and $1.4 billion in total development costs. Mr. Baron was the co-founder and co-chairman of the Vashon Education Compact, a partnership of the St. Louis Public Schools and major corporations, and he is the founder and developer of The Center of Creative Arts (COCA), in University City, Missouri. In 2003, he established the Center for Urban Redevelopment Excellence at the University of Pennsylvania. In October 2004, Richard Baron received The Urban Land Institute J.C. Nichols Prize for Visionaries in Urban Development. The Nichols Prize was established by the Nichols family in 2000 to recognize individuals whose career has demonstrated a commitment to the highest standards of responsible community and real estate development. Mr. Baron is a graduate of Oberlin College and holds a master’s degree in political science from the University of California-Berkeley, and a J.D. from the University of Michigan. He has been awarded honorary degrees from Oberlin College and from St. Louis University, and has most recently received the Medal of Achievement Award from the University of Pennsylvania. PAUL GRAZIANO Executive Director of the Housing Authority of Baltimore City and Commissioner of the Baltimore City Department of Housing and Community Development In November 2000, Paul T. Graziano was appointed Housing Commissioner for the city of Baltimore and Executive Director of the Housing Authority of Baltimore City. He is responsible for overseeing all housing and community development programs, including the City’s federally funded public housing, Section 8, CDBG, HOME, Head Start, Energy Assistance, and CSBG. Prior to coming to Baltimore, Mr. Graziano served as general manager (CEO) of the New York City Housing Authority for over six years. There he oversaw a portfolio of over 180,000 units of public housing and nearly 80,000 units of Section 8 vouchers with a total annual budget exceeding $2 billion. Before that, Mr. Graziano was the Executive Director of the Manchester (New Hampshire) Housing and Redevelopment authority, and also held senior executive positions in the Boston and Watertown (Massachusetts) Housing Authorities. Mr. Graziano has spent a total of 30 years in public and assisted housing. Mr. Graziano holds Bachelor of Science and Masters of City Planning degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. SANDRA B. HENRIQUEZ Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Sandra Brooks Henriquez was sworn in as the Assistant Secretary for HUD’s Office of Public and Indian Housing on Monday, June 22, 2009, after being unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate. As part of the senior leadership team at HUD, Assistant Secretary Henriquez oversees the nation’s public housing and rental assistance programs that assist approximately 3.2 million low-income families across the U.S. She is also responsible for the Department’s Native American and Native Hawaiian programs, which serve 562 federally recognized tribes. @FurmanCenterNYU I www.FurmanCenter.org I #NYChousing ABOUT THE PANELISTS (cont’d) For 13 years, Ms. Henriquez was the Administrator and Chief Executive Officer of the Boston Housing Authority (BHA), one of the nation’s largest public housing authorities. At BHA, she was responsible for an 850-person workforce, a $280 million budget, and nearly 25,000 units of public housing and other affordable housing serving approximately 10 percent of the city’s population. Ms. Henriquez, formerly the President and Director of the Council of Large Public Housing Authorities (CLPHA), has dedicated her life to housing others. Prior to working for BHA, she worked for Maloney Properties, Inc., a full service real estate property management firm specializing in the delivery of services to resident-controlled and non-profit sponsored housing. Before Maloney Properties, she was the Director of Housing Management and Tenant Services for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts’ Department of Housing and Community Development. MARY PATTILLO Harold Washington Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at Northwestern University; New York University Straus Fellow, 2013-2014 Mary Pattillo is the Harold Washington Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at Northwestern University. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1997. Her areas of interest include race and ethnicity (with an emphasis on class stratification), urban sociology, and qualitative methods. As a graduate student, she was a Javits and Truman Scholar, and since then she has won awards, grants and fellowships from the Ford Foundation, Fulbright-Hays, the George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation, and from the MacArthur Foundation. Her book, Black Picket Fences: Privilege and Peril among the Black Middle Class (University of Chicago Press 1999), won the Oliver Cromwell Cox Best Book Award from the American Sociological Association. She has published articles in American Sociological Review, Social Forces, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Journal of Affordable Housing Research, and other journals. She is co-editor of Imprisoning America: The Social Effects of Mass Incarceration (Russell Sage, 2004). Her most recent book, Black on the Block: The Politics of Race and Class in the City (University of Chicago Press 2007), examines conflict and consensus as one African American neighborhood deals with gentrification and the transformation of public housing. It received the Park Best Book Award from the ASA. Current projects include a three-city study of the effects of housing on children’s development funded by the MacArthur Foundation, research on school and housing choice policies, and ongoing teaching and academic partnerships in Colombia, South America. For the 2013-2014 academic year, she is a fellow at NYU’s Straus Institute for the Advanced Study of Law & Justice. She is a founding board member of Urban Prep Charter Academies, Inc., a network of all-boys high schools in Chicago. INGRID GOULD ELLEN (Moderator) Co-Director, NYU’s Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy; Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy, NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service Ingrid Gould Ellen is the Paulette Goddard Professor of Urban Policy and Planning at New York University’s Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and Co-Director of the Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy. She joined the Wagner faculty in the fall of 1997 and presently teaches courses in microeconomics, urban economics, and urban policy. Professor Ellen’s research interests center on urban social and economic policy. She is author of Sharing America’s Neighborhoods: The Prospects for Stable Racial Integration(Harvard University Press, 2000) and has written numerous journal articles and book chapters related to housing policy, community development, and school and neighborhood segregation. Before coming to NYU, Professor Ellen held visiting positions at the Urban Institute and the Brookings Institution. She attended Harvard University, where she received a bachelor’s degree in applied mathematics, an M.P.P., and a Ph.D. in public policy. @FurmanCenterNYU I www.FurmanCenter.org I #NYChousing FURMAN CENTER MOELIS INSTITUTE FOR REAL ESTATE & URBAN POLICY FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING POLICY NEW YORK UNIVERSITY NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW • WAGNER SCHOOL OF PUBLIC SERVICE SCHOOL OF LAW • WAGNER SCHOOL OF PUBLIC SERVICE The Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy is a joint center of the New York University School of Law and the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. The Furman Center is the leading academic research center in New York City devoted to the public policy aspects of land use, real estate, and housing development, and is dedicated to providing objective academic and empirical research. FURMAN CENTER MOELIS INSTITUTE FOR REAL ESTATE & URBAN POLICY FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING POLICY NEW YORK UNIVERSITY NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW • WAGNER SCHOOL OF PUBLIC SERVICE SCHOOL OF LAW • WAGNER SCHOOL OF PUBLIC SERVICE The Moelis Institute for Affordable Housing Policy works to improve the effectiveness of affordable housing policies and programs by providing housing practitioners and policymakers with information about what’s working and what isn’t, and about promising new ideas and innovative practices. www.FurmanCenter.org @FurmanCenterNYU #NYChousing.