MTW Expansion

Learn More at 10yearroadmap.org

Since its inception in the Housing Act of 1937, public housing has faced decades of chronic underfunding and disinvestment. While the last 30 years has brough renewed commitment to new policies and investments in public housing, a cohesive national strategy to recapitalize the public housing portfolio has been lacking. CLPHA is convening a 10 Year Roadmap for Public Housing Sustainability to craft a national approach to preserving the public housing portfolio for the long term. 

Unlike previous long-term planning efforts, cross-sector partnerships and services will be at the center of the 10 Year Roadmap’s strategic thinking. Investing in public housing sustainability is not only about transforming the physical environment, but also about investing in the lives of the low-income residents that live there. As thought leaders begin work on the Roadmap, they will champion cross-sector approaches that center public housing as the anchor for services that help residents access education, health care, digital equity, employment, and other opportunities that help residents improve their life outcomes. 

The 10 Year Roadmap is helmed by a steering committee, led by three co-chairs: 

• The Honorable Ritchie Torres, Member, U.S. House of Representatives 
• The Honorable Shaun Donovan, CEO & President, Enterprise Community Partners; Former Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
• La Shelle Dozier, Vice President, Council of Large Public Housing Authorities; Executive Director, Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency

Steering Committee members include:

• Peggy Bailey, Vice President for Housing and Income Security, Center on Budget & Policy Priorities
• Diana Blackwell, Board Member, National Low Income Housing Coalition
• Emily Cadik, Chief Executive Officer, Affordable Housing Tax Credit Coalition
• Asia Coney, Resident Commissioner, Philadelphia Housing Authority
• Mark Gillett, President, Public Housing Authorities Director’s Association
• Ingrid Gould Ellen, Paulette Goddard Professor of Urban Policy and Planning, Director for Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy, New York University
• Ismael Guerrero, President & CEO, Mercy Housing
• George Guy, President, National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials
• Priya Jayachandran, CEO, National Housing Trust
• Joy Johnson, Resident, Charlottesville Housing Authority
• Andy McMahon, Vice President, Impact Investments, Health Equity Strategy Team, UnitedHealth Group
• Jeffery K. Patterson, President, Council of Large Public Housing Authorities
• Tracey Scott, President, MTW Collaborative
• Dennis C. Shea, Executive Director, J. Ronald Terwilliger Center for Housing Policy, Bipartisan Policy Center
• Sarah Rosen Wartell, President, Urban Institute
• Diane Yentel, President & CEO, National Low Income Housing Coalition

The roadmap process will engage a wide range of stakeholders to advance the continued evolution and preservation of public housing through a 10-year reinvestment plan that establishes a sustainable, deeply affordable, and service-enriched housing platform for residents to achieve their life goals. CLPHA is proud to serve as a convenor for the Roadmap.

The roadmap will marshal the necessary policies, resources, services, and political support to recapitalize the portfolio by leveraging increased and targeted public and private investments through preservation, redevelopment, mixed-used transformations, transfer of assistance, and other innovative strategies. The tools, methods, and mechanisms needed to bring leveraged public and private investments to public housing have been developed over the years. The Roadmap will focus on scaling these tools from piecemeal interventions to a unified national approach that creates expanded, sustainable affordable housing opportunities.

The 10 Year Roadmap Steering Committee held its first meeting at the end of June, and Roadmap Working Groups will launch in August. The Roadmap will present preliminary estimates of the investment needs this fall, and a final report with recommendations by the first quarter of 2025. To learn more about the 10 Year Roadmap for Public Housing Sustainability, visit 10yearroadmap.org.