Richard Gentry

San Diego Housing Commission

Sacramento Delegation Attendee 2020

The President & CEO of the San Diego Housing Commission (SDHC) since September 19, 2008, Richard C. Gentry leads an agency with more than 340 employees and a budget of more than $452 million. SDHC provides federal rental assistance to more than 15,000 households annually; leads partnership efforts to address homelessness, including SDHC’s homelessness action plan, HOUSING FIRST – SAN DIEGO, which has created more than 7,600 housing opportunities in less than five years for San Diegans experiencing homelessness; and creates and preserves affordable housing (more than 24,000 units since 1979). Mr. Gentry has held CEO positions at the Austin (Texas) and Richmond (Va.) housing authorities. He was also the Vice President for Public Housing Initiatives at the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) in Washington, D.C., and the Senior Vice President of Asset Management for the National Equity Fund in Chicago, Ill., the nation’s largest nonprofit Low Income Housing Tax Credit syndicator. In October 2017, Mr. Gentry received the M. Justin Herman Memorial Award from the National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials (NAHRO) for lifetime service to the affordable housing industry. Mr. Gentry currently serves as the Chair of the Public Housing Duty to Serve Committee of Fannie Mae, the Vice Chair of the national Moving to Work (MTW) Collaborative, and as a member of the Board of the Council of Large Public Housing Authorities, and the Board of the California Housing Consortium.