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The D.C. Council on Tuesday appointed 28 members of a comprehensive
housing strategy task force, which was proposed last year by Adrian
M. Fenty (D-Ward 4) to study the city's housing needs and suggest
policies and strategies for achieving them. The task force includes
private citizens, government officials, affordable housing advocates,
representatives of financial institutions, and nonprofit and for-profit
residential developers. They were nominated by Mayor Anthony A.
Williams (D). Committee members are charged with studying where
affordable housing is most needed and for what income levels,
what areas of the city are best suited for creation of more market-rate
and below-market housing, and how to reconcile those needs with
the mayor's goal of attracting and retaining 100,000 residents
over the next decade. The task force will have one year to formulate
a housing strategy, circulate a draft report, revise the report
and submit it to the council. Two of Williams's nominees were
rejected by the council because they live outside the city but
had been listed on the nominating legislation as "citizen
representatives." Council member Harold Brazil (D-At Large),
who with Fenty co-chairs the council's special committee on housing,
said he had been told the mix-up was due to an administrative
error. The nominees, both of whom work on housing issues, may
be renominated in the future, Brazil said. Those appointed to
the task force are:
Adrian G. Washington, of Ward 4, president and chief executive
of the Neighborhood Development Company, a real estate firm specializing
in urban in-fill in emerging neighborhoods;
Christopher B. Lopiano, of Silver Spring, senior vice president
and mid-Atlantic development manager for the Bank of American
Community Development Corp.;
Ernest McDonald Skinner, of Ward 4 in the District, community
development director for the mid-Atlantic region for Citibank;
Marilyn Melkonian, of Ward 2, founder and president of the urban
development firm Telesis Corp., and founder and chair of the National
Housing Trust;
Robert D. Youngentob, of Potomac, president and co-founder of
Eakin/Youngentob Associates, a development company specializing
in urban in-fill projects;
Loretta Tate, of Ward 7, president and chief executive of the
Marshall Heights Community Development Organization;
Leslie A. Steen, who lives in Ward 3, president and chief executive
of the Community Preservation and Development Corp, a nonprofit
developer of subsidized housing;
John K. McIlwain, of Ward 2, a senior fellow specializing in
housing issues at the Urban Land Institute;
Oramenta F. Newsome, of Jessup, director of the D.C. office of
the Local Initiatives Support Corporation, a community development
group;
Beverly Wilbourn, of Ward 1, a lawyer specializing in affordable
housing and community development.
Stanley W. Sloter, of Bethesda, founder and president of the
development firm Paradigm Companies, which just completed its
first luxury apartment building in downtown Washington;
W. Christopher Smith Jr., of Annapolis, chairman and chief executive
of the real estate firm William C. Smith & Co;
Adrian G. Washington, of Ward 4, president and chief executive
of the Neighborhood Development Company, a real estate firm specializing
in urban in-fill in emerging neighborhoods;
Robert H. Pohlman, of Ward 1, executive director of the Coalition
for Nonprofit Housing & Economic Development;
Yvonne Clary, of Ward 6, a native Washingtonian and longtime
public housing resident and advocate;
Robert L.E. Egger, of Ward 1, president of DC Central Kitchen;
Walter David Watts, of Ward 4, executive director of the President's
Initiative on the City of George Washington University;
Alice M. Rivlin, of Ward 3, a senior fellow in economic studies
and director of the Greater Washington Research Program at the
Brookings Institution and a former chair of the D.C. financial
control board;
John H. "Skip" McKoy, of Ward 4, president and chief
executive of DC Agenda;
Lessie P. Evans, of Ward 4, director of the Washington office
of the Enterprise Foundation;
Gilberto Cardenas, of Ward 3, a project manager with the real
estate development firm Jair Lynch Companies;
Nan P. Roman, of Ward 3, president and chief executive of the
National Alliance to End Homelessness;
Patrick M. Costigan, of Ward 6, senior vice president of the
Community Builders;
Lori E. Parker, of Ward 1, interim deputy mayor for children,
youth, families and elders;
Ellen M. McCarthy, of Ward 3, deputy director in the D.C. Office
of Planning for development review, neighborhood planning and
historic preservation;
Michael P. Kelly, of Ward 4, D.C. Housing Authority executive
director;
Stanley Jackson, of Ward 8, director of the D.C. Department of
Housing and Community Development;
Theodore N. Carter, of Ward 2, chief executive of the National
Capital Revitalization Corp.;
Milton J. Bailey, of Ward 4, executive director of D.C. Housing
Finance Agency.
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