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 Public Schools

Buffalo Promise Neighborhood Initiative

Catholic Charities

Closing the Gap Buffalo

Community Action Organization of Erie County

City of Buffalo

City Honors High School

D'Youville College

Home Depot

Hillside Work-Scholarship Connection