Affordable Housing Veteran Drives RAD Forward

September 15, 2017                                 By: Donna Kimura

Tom Davis and the Rental Assistance Demonstration team are finalists for government service award.

While a student at Brown University, he volunteered with a community organization building housing in a disadvantaged neighborhood in Providence, R.I. On Friday afternoons, he would go out and help at their construction sites. “It got me interested in the issues and the questions of low-income communities and urban development,” he says.

A few years later, when Davis graduated from law school, he looked for and joined a firm that had an affordable housing practice. It was the start of a respected career in the industry that has included positions at two leading Boston-based nonprofit organizations, The Community Builders and Preservation of Affordable Housing.

For the past two years, Davis has been director of the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD’s) Office of Recapitalization, where one of his key roles is spearheading the Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD) program, the centerpiece of HUD’s strategy to preserve at-risk public and assisted-housing developments..............Read More