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2009 Award Winner

Joseph A. Belval
Housing Development Manager, City of Phoenix Neighborhood Services Department

Joseph Belval has a strong history with, and commitment to, neighborhood revitalization, stemming from the late 1970s when he worked as a community organizer in Chicago. As Housing Development Manager, Belval is at the center of intensive, community-driven, neighborhood-specific strategies for Phoenix’s older, distressed neighborhoods, overcoming blight house-by-house and block-by-block. Viewed equally as a leader and partner, Belval provides strategic guidance and coordination to eliminate blighted properties, doing whatever it takes to acquire and transform the properties, then turn them into homeownership opportunities primarily for the benefit of low- and moderate-income families. Belval’s commitment to his vision has produced 158 scattered-site infill homes to forward the city’s revitalization agenda. Belval brings a generous and affirming spirit to all he does, tirelessly giving of his time and energy to his peers, his staff and his partners in the community.

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