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Delaware Housing Policy Round Table
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Lisa |
Blunt-Bradley |
President |
Metropolitan Wilmington Urban League |
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CO-CHAIRS |
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Lorraine |
deMeurisse |
VP for
Community Affairs |
Deutsche
Bank Trust Company Delaware |
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Helen |
McArdle-Stewart |
Vice
President |
JPMorgan
Chase |
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Other Members
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Timothy |
Crawl-Bey |
Executive Director |
Community Housing, Inc. |
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Vivian |
Davis |
Director of Housing |
ARC of Delaware |
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Kevin |
Gillis |
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Chase Home Mortgage Finance |
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Terri |
Hasson |
VP |
Citicorp
Trust Bank, fsb |
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Doug |
Hazelton |
Executive
Vice President |
MBNA
America Bank |
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Richard |
Heffron |
Sr. VP
for Government Affairs |
Delaware
State Chamber of Commerce |
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Greta |
Huegel |
Vice
President |
Chase
Manhattan Mortgage Corp. |
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Kevin |
Kelly |
President |
Leon N.
Weiner & Associates, Inc. |
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Ruth |
Briggs
King |
Director |
First
State Manufactured Housing Assn. |
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Mark |
Kleinschmidt |
President |
NCCo
Chamber of Commerce |
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Steve |
Lefebvre |
Executive Vice President |
Home
Builders Association of Delaware |
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Joe L. |
Myer |
Executive Director |
NCALL
Research, Inc. |
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Gary |
Pollio |
Executive Director |
Interfaith Housing Delaware |
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Roland |
Ridgeway |
President |
DE
Federation of Housing Counselors |
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Michael |
Skipper |
Vice President/Community Development Manager
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WSFS
Bank |
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Ken |
Smith |
Executive Director |
Delaware
Housing Coalition |
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See our Fact Sheet,
"Who Can Afford to Live in Delaware"
The mission
of the DHC is (1) to advocate for safe, decent, and affordable housing
throughout the state. Our goal is to affect, impact, and shape the
environment relating to housing. (2)
We are
committed to fostering the growth and long-term flourishing of grass
roots constituencies which develop their power; nurture their own
problem-solvers and leaders; and work together to change the conditions
which prevent them from obtaining safe, decent, and affordable housing.
Historically, DHC’s public role has been largely focused
on the second half of the mission statement - grass roots organization
with some advocacy. In 2004, DHC
significantly increased its advocacy through the Trust Fund Working
Group. The
Housing Policy Round Table carries on this effort to create and
coordinate a broader, more diverse voice in support of affordable
housing solutions.
The Round Table is a
broad-based coalition able to (1) evaluate Delaware’s housing-related
challenges, (2) evaluate options to solve these challenges and (3) craft
an affordable housing agenda and work for its implementation. This
roundtable includes nonprofit developers, for profit builders, bankers,
realtor leaders, housing counseling leaders, chamber of commerce, and
other private-sector leaders with a stake in housing opportunities -- a
broad and diverse representation of those who contribute to affordable
housing --
among whose activities may be:
- Meeting to
analyze and discuss Delaware’s affordable housing challenges,
evaluate possible solutions, develop a proposed housing agenda, and
work to ensure the agenda is implemented (leveraging both public-
and private-sector dollars).
- In partnership
with DHC, holding occasional public forums to discuss and debate
specific issues, such as ways to create or redevelop affordable
homeownership units in times of rapid price appreciation, methods
for reducing the disparity between the overall homeownership rate
and the minority homeownership rate, the impact of county land use
policies, trends in down payment assistance programs, etc.
- Based on the
work of the Roundtable and the forums, developing and publishing an
ongoing series (at least annual) of “agendas” that will summarize
the recommended actions for solving Delaware’s affordable housing
challenges. Members of the roundtable can then move this agenda
forward through their individual organizations.
- Work with state
officials to develop funding sources to support the agenda.
- Work with the
congressional delegation to secure federal earmark funds to support
innovative solutions in Delaware, such as community land trusts,
etc.
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