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James Stockard Loeb Fellow 1978, Curator Photo by Doug Cogger.
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James
Stockard is an expert in affordable housing and community
development. As a principal for over 25 years with the Cambridge-based
consulting firm Stockard & Engler & Brigham, he has worked
with non-profit groups and public agencies across the country on such issues as affordable housing development, property management, neighborhood revitalization, and supportive service planning. Shortly before coming to the Design School, he served as the court-appointed Special Master for the Department of Public and Assisted Housing in Washington, DC. Mr. Stockard has taught courses on housing policy at MIT's School of Architecture and Planning, Tufts University, and the GSD. He is currently the Principal Investigator for the GSD's Congressionally mandated Public Housing Operating Cost Study. He is the co-author of Managing Affordable Housing, and of "The Next 60 Years" in The Future of Public Housing. He has chaired the Cambridge Housing Authority for five terms and is a founding trustee of the Cambridge Affordable Housing Trust Fund. He is a past president of the Citizens Housing and Planning Association, Massachusetts' largest research and advocacy group for housing and community issues. Mr. Stockard is an alumnus of the Loeb Fellowship Program and also earned a master of city planning degree from the Harvard Design School.
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