URBAN INSTITUTE
Public Housing Transformation and Crime: Is There a Link?
April 5, 2012
Renée Glover is the CEO of the Atlanta Housing Authority. She pioneered master-planned, mixedfinance, mixed-income residential developments where families of all socioeconomic profiles live
next to each other in the same amenity-rich community. This model is now used as the
redevelopment blueprint by the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Glover was
inducted into the Affordable Housing Hall of Fame by Affordable Housing Finance magazine and
received the Urban Innovator Award from the Manhattan Institute Center for Civic Innovation.
Glover serves on the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and Habitat for
Humanity International. She is also currently serving as a member of the Bipartisan Policy Center
Housing Commission.
Sandra Henriquez is the assistant secretary for Public and Indian Housing at the Department of
Housing and Urban Development, where she oversees the nation's public housing and rental
assistance programs that help approximately 3.2 million low-income families. Previously, she was
the administrator and CEO of the Boston Housing Authority. Before that, Henriquez worked for
Maloney Properties, Inc., a real estate property management firm specializing in services for
resident-controlled and nonprofit sponsored housing. Before Maloney Properties, she was the
director of housing management and tenant services for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts’s
Department of Housing and Community Development. Henriquez is a former president and director
of the Council of Large Public Housing Authorities.
Susan Popkin is a senior fellow at the Urban Institute and the director of its Program on
Neighborhoods and Youth Development. Her research focuses on the ways that neighborhood
environments affect outcomes for youth and on assessing comprehensive, community-based
interventions. Popkin is coauthor of Moving to Opportunity: The Story of an American Experiment
to Fight Ghetto Poverty, lead author of The Hidden War: Crime and the Tragedy of Public Housing
in Chicago, and coauthor of Public Housing and the Legacy of Segregation.
Michael Rich is associate professor of political science and director of the Office of UniversityCommunity Partnerships at Emory University. He is the author of Federal Policymaking and the
Poor and several publications on federalism, community development, housing and homelessness,
crime, and economic development. His current research focuses on community building,
neighborhood revitalization strategies, and welfare reform, particularly concerning issues relating to
cross-sector collaboration and the revitalization of urban communities.
Margery Turner is vice president for research at the Urban Institute. A nationally recognized
expert on urban policy and neighborhood issues, Turner has analyzed racial and ethnic
discrimination’s contribution to neighborhood segregation and inequality, and the role of housing
policies in promoting residential mobility and location choice. She was deputy assistant secretary
for research at the Department of Housing and Urban Development from 1993 through 1996,
focusing HUD's research agenda on the problems of racial discrimination, concentrated poverty,
and economic opportunity in America's metropolitan areas. She is coauthor of Public Housing and
the Legacy of Segregation.
Charles Woodyard is the CEO of the Chicago Housing Authority, where he is engaging the
private sector in the real estate components of public housing and is pursuing integration through
mixed-income developments. Previously, he was president and CEO of the Charlotte Housing
Authority. Woodyard has been on the boards of Leadership Charlotte, the Public Housing
Authorities Directors Association, the National Association of Housing & Redevelopment Officials,
and Partners in Out of School Time.