Podcast Episode 38: A Conversation with David Northern

October 18, 2024 | by Anna Orendain

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Local housing authorities provide critical housing resources to their communities, but do you know what kind of services they provide? In this episode, we sit down with David A. Northern Sr., President and CEO of the Houston Housing Authority (one of the largest housing authorities in the country) to talk about their work and how it might be relevant to our listeners.

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Meet Our Guest—David A. Northern Sr.

David A. Northern, Sr. is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Houston Housing Authority, one of the nation’s largest housing authorities, serving more than 60,000 low-income Houstonians with 200 plus full-time employees and more than 100 private management staff. 

Mr. Northern has dedicated his longstanding and reputable career of 26 years to the public housing industry. A demonstrated leader in the affordable housing sector, he is the immediate past President of the Public Housing Authorities Directors Association, an organization of 1,900-member housing agencies representing more than 1.9 million low-income housing units throughout the U.S.

Mr. Northern has proven experience as a proactive leader in federal housing assistance programs, including urban planning and policy development. In 2011 he was selected as a member of a housing delegation that traveled to South Africa to educate and advise their government leadership. In 2016 he was a speaker at the White House Convening on the proposed HUD smoke-free rule in public housing. In 2019 he was appointed by Governor J.B. Pritzker to the Illinois State Housing Task Force and was elected to the Illinois Housing Council’s Board of Directors. 


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