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Institute at Rutgers University between 1988-1994 Dan
coined the phrase “employer-assisted housing” and led the
research that founded the field of employer-assisted
housing. His research identified the model programs that
employers use today and the “bottom line” language that
communicates to employers why and how housing benefit
programs solve persistent business problems.
Dan’s work resulted in his being asked to advise Fannie Mae
on its national program and members of Congress where
Dan helped to draft two federal laws on employer-assisted
housing, one making employer-assisted housing an eligible
HOME program activity and another that amended the Taft-
Hartley Act to permit organized labor to bargain for housing
benefits.
For most of the past six years Dan has had a full-time
consulting practice advising business, business
organizations, labor unions, public agencies and nonprofit
entities on the feasibility, design and implementation of
housing benefit programs in various locations throughout the
nation ranging from central cities to resort and destination
communities.
A strong focus of Dan’s work has been integrating housing
benefit programs into state and local housing, economic and
community development strategies and using employer-
assisted housing as a tool for smart growth and
redevelopment planning. His work as the original consultant
to Baltimore’s well-known Live Near Your Work program and
Philadelphia’s successful HomeBuyNow program typifies
this approach.
Dan is the nation’s most extensive chronicler of employer-
assisted housing programs. He is co-author of the book,
Employer-Assisted Housing: A Benefit for the 1990s (1992
BNA Books) and more than a dozen articles on employer-
assisted housing. He is also a regular speaker at housing
conferences, including most recently state conferences in
Washington, New Mexico, Idaho, and Wyoming. Recently he
was an invited witness as part of New Jersey’s ongoing state
housing policy modernization and he continues to advise NJ
officials on housing policy.
In addition to his employer-assisted housing work Dan has
held a variety of other housing and community development
positions during his nearly 30 year career including Executive
Director of an Indian Housing Authority, Policy Director for a
statewide advocacy organization and faculty member at both
Rutgers University and the University of Illinois. He has been
a staff consultant to the Asst. Secretary for Policy at HUD
during the Clinton Administration and the Chairman of the
Urban Policy Committee of the NJ General Assembly (1982-
1889).
A graduate of Rutgers University and the Humphrey Institute
at the University of Minnesota, In addition to his employer-
assisted housing writing he is co-author of A New Housing
Policy for America: Recapturing the American Dream (1988
Temple University Books) and has written on a variety of
topics including nonprofit entrepreneurialism, strategic
planning, equity insurance, energy policy and housing trust
funds.
Daniel N. Hoffman
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and regional affordable housing conferences including
ones in California, Florida, Louisiana, Maine,
Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York,
Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Vermont and
Washington State and many professional groups
including:
- The National Association of Home Builders
- The Mortgage Bankers Association of America
- The National Home Renovation Lenders
- The Council of State Governments
- The National League of Cities
- The American Society for Public Administration
- The Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation
- The National Association of Housing
- and Redevelopment Officials
Employer-Assisted Housing Publications
Book:
Employer-Assisted Housing; A Benefit for the 1990s, with
David C. Schwartz and Richard C. Ferlauto, Bureau of
National Affairs Books (Washington, D,C.) 1992. This
continues to be the only book length work on this subject.
Articles (authored and co-authored):
- “Employer-assisted Housing,” Journal of Housing,
Nov. 1988 - “A Boost for Homebuyers,” Los Angeles Times,
(OP-ED), June 17, 1989, p8. - “Employer-Assisted Housing: New Tools for
Developers,” Journal of Real Estate Development,
August 1989. - Organizing for Housing Benefits,” Social Policy,
Vol, 19, No.3, Winter, 1989. - “Employer-Assisted Housing: New Motivations,
New Methods and New Partnerships,”
Shelterforce, January/February 1990. - “Employer-Assisted Housing: A Benefit for the
1990s,” Employment Relations Today, Spring
1990. - “Housing Benefits: New Resources for
Managers,” Public Management, January 1991. - “Low Cost Housing: A Benefit for Employers,”
Journal of Housing, September/October 1992. - “Another Look at Employer-Assisted Housing,”
American Affordable Housing Institute, Rutgers
University, 1999. - “The Benefits of Employer-Assisted Housing,”
Cascade, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia,
April 2006 . - “New Public/Private Housing Benefit Partnerships
Emerging, HR.BLR.com (HR Business and Legal
Reports, e-zine), April 2006. - “A New Benefit to Offer Your Employees: Access to
Housing,” Nonprofit World, Society for Nonprofit
Organizations, Canton, MI., Vol.24, No.4. August
2006.
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