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For nearly three decades Dan has been developing and communicating policy innovation on behalf of highly visible
local, state and federal officials, university research and outreach programs and nonprofit organizations. He has been
a valued counselor in work that has resulted in new state and federal laws, new public/private partnerships, new
businesses and industries, and new ways of thinking about program implementation and community investment.
Strengths include breadth of experience, communication and process skills, strategic planning and the ability to think
creatively, innovate and work with diverse populations.
Previous Experience:
- Policy Director, PA Low Income Housing Coalition (1996-2001).
- Program Coordinator, E. St. Louis Action Research Project, University of Illinois (1995-1996).
- Research Director, American Affordable Housing Institute, Rutgers University. (1988-2004)
- Associate, The Atlantic Group, specializing in economic development/redevelopment, special improvement
districts, and transit related development (1986-1988). - Senior Planner, City of Plainfield, NJ (1982-1985).
- Executive Director, Minnesota Dacotah Indian Housing Authority (1979-1981).
Policy Development Experience
- Legislative Consultant to the Chairman of the N.J. Assembly's Housing Committee (1982-1991).
- Research Director, American Affordable Housing Institute, Rutgers University (1988-1994).
- Policy Director, PA Low Income Housing Coalition (1996-2001).
- Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research, US Dept. of Housing and
Urban Development (2000). - Member of the National Association of Housing Research Council, a “by invitation” affiliate of the National
Association of Home Builders (1990-1994). Chair of the Administrative Committee (1993). - Founder and first Executive Director, Minnesota Dacotah Indian Housing Authority that operates on four
Minnesota Indian communities. - Founder and first President of for-profit PA Low Income Housing Coalition subsidiary, Community Power, which
marketed electricity to housing authorities and other large affordable housing providers in Pennsylvania’s
deregulated market - Assisted members of Congress on work that amend the HOME program and the Taft-Hartley Act to include
employer-assisted housing. - Assisted Fannie Mae in developing its internal and external employer-assisted housing programs.
- Advised the State of Maryland in association with a Baltimore-based nonprofit on what ultimately became the
nationally recognized “Live Near Your Work” employer-assisted housing program.
Non-EAH Publications
Book:
- A New Housing Policy for America: Recapturing the American Dream, with David C. Schwartz and Richard C,
Ferlauto, Temple University Press (Philadelphia) 1988.
Articles:
- “A New Urban Policy for the 1990s,” Journal of Urban Affairs, Spring 1993.
- “Creating Affordable Housing Through Non-Profit/For Profit Development Partnerships,”
- The Real Estate Finance Journal, Vol.9., No.2, Fall 1993.
- “Using Third-Party Facilitators to Help Create For-profit/Nonprofit Partnerships,” Housing New Jersey, Vol.3, No.
1, June 1993. - “Qualifying Low-Income Homebuyers: A Private Solution to a Community Problem,” (Monograph) Catalyst
Institute (Chicago), May 1994. - “Mortgage Insurance Innovation: An Absent Tool in the Community Revitalization Toolbox,” When a House is
More Than Home: Home Ownership as an Asset Building Tool for Families and Communities, Neighborhood
Reinvestment Corporation, (Washington, DC), September 1997. - “Equity Insurance: A New Tool for Encouraging Urban Home Ownership,” Planning (e-journal), American
Planning Association, (Chicago), February 1999. - “Housing Coalition Helps Managers, Tenants Find Cost Savings from Electric Deregulation,” Affordable
Housing Finance, Vol.7, No.5. May 1999 - “Community Power: Lessons for nonprofit entrepreneurship,” Shelterforce (Orange, NJ), Vol. 107,
September/October 1999, p.18. - “County Housing Trust Funds: A Source for Affordable Housing Finance in Pennsylvania,” Cascade: A
Community Development Publication of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, Winter 1999, p.8. - “Where is the Urge to Merge” The NeighborWorks Journal, Vol.18, N.3-4, Summer/Fall 2000, p 36.
- “Tie firms’ tax breaks to growth,” Philadelphia Inquirer commentary page; 3/9/04.
Education
- B.A., Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, (Political Science and American History, 1977)
- M.A. Public Affairs, Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota (1985).
innovative employer-assisted housing program:
dhoffman@eahousing.com