About Us
Project Team
Dawn Sanders, Project Director
Executive director of the Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority (BMHA)
300 Perry Street
Buffalo, New York
http://www.ci.buffalo.ny.us/Home/CityServices/Buffalo_Municipal_Housing_Authority
Henry Louis Taylor, Jr., Project Coordinator
Professor, Department of Urban and Regional Planning
Director, UB Center for Urban Studies
Hayes Annex C
South Campus
University at Buffalo
Buffalo, New York
www.centerforurbanstudies.com
Steering Committee
Dawn Sanders, Executive Director
Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority
Henry Louis Taylor, Jr., Professor
Director, UB Center for Urban Studies
University at Buffalo
Modesto Candelario, Assistant Executive Director
Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority
Vanessa Solomon, Director of Management
Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority
Elaine Diallo, Resident Commissioner, Chair of the Resident Empowerment Committee of the Board of Commissioners
Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority
Sam Smith, Chair, Jurisdictional Wide Resident Council
Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority
Cynthia Worthy, President of the Commodore Perry Resident Council
Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority
Current Partners
The BMHA-HUD Choice Neighborhood Planning Initiative is a collaborative, which is based on the development of a network of partners. The current list of partners is not fixed, but will continue to grow and develop throughout the life of the project.
Erie Regional HDC Belle Center
Buffalo Hearing and Speech Center
Buffalo Promise Neighborhood Initiative
Closing the Gap Buffalo
Community Action Organization of Erie County
Hillside Work-Scholarship Connection
PS School 39/Martin Luther King Multicultural Institute
King Urban Life Center
Sheehan Memorial Hospital
NYS Department of Health Environmental Health Program





