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James A. Johnson Fellows, 2003 FellowsGet to know our 2003 Fellows.
Mike Anderson is the executive director of the East Side Neighborhood Development Company of St. Paul, Minnesota. His work on affordable housing began in the early 1980s when he served in Congressman Bruce Vento's district office. In 2002, Anderson developed the Opportunity Housing Investment, raising $600,000 through the contributions of more than 100 individual social investors.
Clanton Beamon is the executive director of the Delta Housing Development Corporation in Indianola, Mississippi, a nonprofit organization that provides housing for rural poor people living in Mississippi's Delta region. Under his leadership, Delta Housing has developed subdivisions of low-income housing, helped hundreds of families build new homes, developed low-income rental housing projects in rural Mississippi, administered the Housing Preservation Grant program to rehabilitate 200 homes, and obtained a $250,000 affordable housing grant from Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas to refurbish low-income homes for elderly and handicapped homeowners.
Jerry Brant is president of the Northern Cambria Community Development Corporation of Northern Cambria, Pennsylvania, a nonprofit organization that focuses on homeownership, housing rehabilitation, and community development. Under his leadership, the organization has helped more than 70 area residents become first-time homeowners through financing and construction programs; sponsored a program to help people rehabilitate their homes; constructed affordable apartments for low-income senior citizens; built rental housing units for homeless people with disabilities; and developed group homes for severely physically and developmentally disabled people.
Aaron Gornstein is executive director of the Citizen's Housing and Planning Association in Boston, Massachusetts, a statewide organization that encourages the construction and preservation of housing for low-income people. In 2003, he led an initiative to prevent the repeal of a key state zoning law that protects affordable housing development. His work with the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce and the Greater Boston Real Estate Board highlighted how unaffordable housing hurts employers' efforts to hire and keep qualified workers. He also developed a registry of housing units for disabled people to demonstrate that there was a shortage.
Brad Lander is executive director of the Fifth Avenue Committee in Brooklyn, New York, a nationally recognized nonprofit community development organization. Under his leadership, the Committee has developed 600 units of affordable housing, helped recently released prisoners reenter society, worked with social service organizations to develop supportive housing for neighborhood residents with special needs, and established a Displacement Free Zone in Park Slope, Brooklyn, to keep rents affordable for long-time tenants.
Joan Ling is executive director of the Community Corporation of Santa Monica, California, which under her leadership has increased its investment in affordable rental housing sevenfold. In 1998, she initiated a voters' referendum to allow the city to devote up to 2.5 percent of its new housing stock to low-income housing. She helped create the Los Angeles City Housing Trust Fund and the adoption of land use policy changes that promote affordable housing, and co-founded Livable Places, a nonprofit organized to reverse the sprawling growth pattern and encourage investment in blighted and abandoned areas of Los Angeles.
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