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
    Her career has focused on creating vibrant living environments that are equally successful at the scale of the neighborhood, building, and living unit. Anne’s efforts are directed at the design of urban infill housing—affordable, multifamily or mixed-use—reflecting her and the wider firm’s commitment to rebuilding the nation’s cities.
  • Stockton Williams  
    Senior Vice President for External Affairs, Enterprise Community Partners, Inc., San Francisco, CA
    Stockton Williams came to Enterprise in February 2000 as assistant director of Public Policy. In 2004, he was promoted to vice president for External Affairs and to senior vice president in 2006. He is responsible for Enterprise’s government affairs activities and directs fundraising and communications. He develops and implements strategies to advance Enterprise’s objectives with federal and state policymakers; corporate, philanthropic and financial institutions; the media; and the general public. Williams was key in the development of Enterprise’s Green CommunitiesTM initiative. Green Communities is a five-year, $555 million initiative to build more than 8,500 environmentally healthy homes for low-income families. In addition to his other responsibilities, he also oversees all external affairs for Green Communities, including fundraising, communications and public policy. 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, Baltimore and Charleston, S.C. He 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, a member of the Board of Directors of the Affordable Housing Tax Credit Coalition and a member of the steering committee of the New Markets Tax Credit Coalition. He is also a guest lecturer in American University’s Washington Semester program.