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Alumni, Class of 2008 >

James G. Stockard, Jr.

Curator, Loeb Fellowship Program

Photo by Doug Cogger

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James Stockard, LF ’78, 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 worked with non-profit groups and public agencies across the country on such issues as affordable housing development, property and asset management, neighborhood revitalization, and supportive service planning. Shortly before coming to the GSD, he served as the court-appointed Special Master for the Department of Public and Assisted Housing in Washington, DC. 

In addition to his Loeb Fellowship responsibilities, Jim teaches courses in housing and neighborhood development at the GSD. He has previously taught housing policy courses at MIT and Tufts University. He is the co-author of Managing Affordable Housing and wrote the epilogue for New Directions in Urban Public Housing. His most recent article, The Affordable Housing Imperative for America’s Cites: Can Government Solve It? was prepared as part of a study of affordable housing in New York City by a division of Baruch College. From 2000-2003 he was the GSD’s Principal Investigator for the Public Housing Operating Cost Study commissioned by the US Congress. 

Jim has served as a Commissioner of the Cambridge Housing Authority for over 30 years (including seven terms as chair) and is a founding Trustee of the Cambridge Affordable Housing Trust Fund. He has recently been appointed to the Housing Appeals Committee which rules on zoning override petitions as a part of Massachusetts’ unique Chapter 40B provisions aimed at facilitating affordable housing throughout the Commonwealth. He is a past president of the Citizens Housing and Planning Association, the largest research and advocacy group for housing and community development issues in Massachusetts. Jim is a graduate of Princeton University, an alumnus of the Loeb Fellowship Program, and earned a Master of City Planning degree from the GSD.