Terri B. North, President and CEO, Providence Community Housing

Ann Houston, Executive Director, The Neighborhood Developers

Challenge: Chelsea is the smallest city in Massachusetts, and the second most densely populated. Poverty rates are high, and the crime rates make it one of the state’s most dangerous places to live. Reducing those rates was essential to revitalizing the city.


 

Frank Shea, Executive Director, Urban Edge

Frank Shea, Executive Director, Urban Edge

Mary Lawler, Executive Director
Jenifer Wagley, Deputy Director
Avenue Community Development Corp.

Julie Bornstein, Executive Director, Coachella Valley Housing Coalition

Colin Kelley, CEO, NeighborWorks Western Pennsylvania

Challenge: To revitalize two struggling Pittsburgh neighborhoods by investing in people and leadership within those communities.

Katie Bowman, Executive Director, Housing Resources of Western Colorado

Robert Tourigny, Executive Director of NeighborWorks Southern New Hampshire

Dana Totman, president and CEO, Avesta Housing
 
Challenge: More than 40 years developing and managing affordable housing has taught Avesta Housing that building a large room, putting in some tables and chairs and labeling it “community room” is not enough. But what does it take to build and sustain community in affordable housing?