The I. Donald Terner Prize for Innovation and Leadership in Affordable Housing

Jury

• Paul Freitag  

  Developer, Development Studio Director & Senior Project Manager, Jonathan Rose Companies, LLC, New York, NY

  Paul Freitag is a registered architect and LEED Accredited Professional, with twenty years experience in planning, design, and real estate development. Much of his career has focused on the redevelopment of underutilized properties for affordable housing and social service programs in distressed neighborhoods in the New York metropolitan region.

  Mr. Freitag has taught architecture and design at Parsons School of Design in New York City and the University of Bridgeport in Bridgeport, CT. He is currently a member of the Urban Land Institute’s Affordable Housing Council. He participated in research in Paris, France developing CAD design systems in coordination with the production of prototype low-income housing. Mr. Freitag also received a Mayor’s Volunteer Service Award for his work in organizing volunteer participation in sweat-equity projects in Brooklyn, NY.

  He is a graduate of Brown University, University of Virginia and City College of New York.

• Richard Harris  

  Central City Concerns, Portland, OR

  Richard L. Harris is the Executive Director of Central City Concern (CCC), a private nonprofit agency “providing pathways to self-sufficiency through active intervention in poverty and homelessness” in the Portland area since 1979. Mr. Harris has 38 years experience in the field of mental health, chemical dependency, health services and housing, including the last 27 years directing programs of Central City Concern.

  Mr. Harris has created several innovative programs that have since been duplicated nationally: Alcohol and Drug Free Communities in low income transitional and permanent housing, including the first such project funded by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development Section 8 Moderate Rehabilitation program; a modification to Oregon Landlord Tenant Law allowing special rules for Alcohol and Drug Free Communities; an outreach program for public inebriates; and, a homeless intervention providers network serving chemically dependent people in Portland.

  Mr. Harris attended the University of Utah where he received a Master of Social Work. He has lived and worked in Portland, Oregon since 1974.

• John King  

  Urban Design and Architecture Reporter, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco, CA

  John King is the San Francisco Chronicle’s Urban Design Writer, a post he created in 2001 after joining the paper in 1992 and covering everything from politics at San Francisco City Hall to cultural changes in the suburbs. In addition to The Chronicle he has worked at the Boston Globe, and written for such publications as Architectural Record, Metropolis and Dwell.

  In 2002, the California Council of the American Institute of Architects presented King a “Special Commendation” for his “delicate blend of vision and pragmatism” in writing about urban design. In 2005, he received the Presidents Award from the California Preservation Foundation and in 2006 he was given the first Urban Journalism Award from the Urban Communication Foundation of New York. He is also a two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Criticism.

• Greg Maher  

  Vice President & Deputy General Counsel, Local Initiatives Support Corporation, New York, NY

  Gregory Maher is Senior Vice President for Lending of Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), the nation’s largest community development support organization. As a year-round member of LISC's Credit Committee, he has evaluated nearly 3,000 loan proposals from LISC's network of 34 urban and rural programs nationwide. He also serves as Chairman of LISC's Green Development Advisory Group.

  Mr. Maher has made over fifty presentations nationally on a diverse range of community development topics, including new markets tax credits; joint ventures between nonprofit and for-profit entities; tax-exemption issues for community development corporations; green community development; and LISC's underwriting guidelines. From 1998 to 2002 he was Practice Chair of the Community Economic Development Division of the American Bar Association (ABA) Forum on Affordable Housing and Community Development Law. Mr. Maher has served on the Board of Directors of Affinity Health Plan and the Workforce Investment Company, Inc.

  He is a graduate of Holy Cross College and St. John's University School of Law.

• Anne Torney  

  Architect and Director of Housing, SolomonETC, San Francisco, CA

  Anne Torney is an architect who has made affordable multifamily housing and urban infill the focus of her work for over 20 years. As a Principal and Director of Housing at the multi-disciplinary architectural design firm, WRT/Solomon E.T.C., she has overseen many award winning projects and is responsible for the completion of many affordable units in San Francisco, San Jose, Los Angeles, and Seattle, Washington.

  She is currently overseeing several large projects in San Francisco such as the recently completed Broadway Family Apartments, a midrise building built on a freeway touch-down site left vacant after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, and Alabama Street Family Housing, a mix of affordable rental and ownership units in San Francisco’s Mission District, scheduled to be completed in 2009.

  Anne is also currently engaged in the master planning and architectural design for the Mayor of San Francisco’s pilot HOPE SF project, locally funded public housing redevelopment, Hunters View. This is a 22 acre mixed-income redevelopment project which, at completion, will include up to 800 units of affordable and market rate housing (both ownership and rental), new streets, parks, and community space.

  Anne earned her BA at Princeton University and studied for her masters degree at the University of California, Berkeley.

  Anne is a strong believer of affordable housing for everyone and works tirelessly on bringing these projects into reality. She serves as a member of SPUR, is currently the chair of the AIA San Francisco Housing Committee and is a board member of the Center for Architecture and Design.

• Stockton Williams  

  Senior Vice President for External Affairs, Enterprise Community Partners, Inc., San Francisco, CA

  Stockton Williams leads external affairs, public policy and innovation for Enterprise Community Partners. In addition, Williams co-leads environmental strategy for the national nonprofit organization, and serves as managing director of the Enterprise Terwilliger Fund, which will generate more than $130 million for affordable housing developments around the country. Enterprise invests $1 billion annually to create affordable homes and economic development opportunities in low-income communities across the United States. Williams works with major financial institutions and foundations, leading national organizations and policymakers at the federal, state and local level to develop new initiatives, partnerships and solutions to advance Enterprise’s mission. He was instrumental in the design and development of Green Communities, Enterprise’s groundbreaking $555 million commitment to mainstream sustainability in the affordable housing industry, and he is co-leading the development of new initiatives to expand Enterprise’s environmental commitment. In February 2000, Williams came to Enterprise as director of public policy. In 2004, he was promoted to vice president for external affairs and to senior vice president in 2006. Before joining Enterprise, Williams was a senior legislative and policy associate at the National Council of State Housing Agencies. He also worked for nonprofit community development organizations in New York City, Charleston, S.C., and Baltimore.

  Williams has a bachelor’s degree in religion from Princeton University and a master’s degree in real estate development from Columbia University. Williams is a trustee of the National Housing Conference and a member of the Trust for Public Land’s Real Estate Council. In addition, he is a guest lecturer in American University’s Washington Semester program.