| William K. Huang is the Acting Executive Director of the Los Angeles County Community Development Commission. This unique organization carries out a number of functions for the County of Los Angeles including housing and community development, economic redevelopment, public housing and housing rental assistance. The organizational budget is $440 million dollars and includes 700 staff.
Mr. Huang’s permanent position is as Director of the Housing Development and Preservation Division of the Los Angeles County Community Development Commission. In this capacity, he is in charge of the Commission’s affordable housing loan, grant, and development activities. The funding for these activities include HOME, CDBG, redevelopment tax increment funds, County general funds, and other state and local resources totaling $50-$70 million annually. He was previously the HDP Division’s Manager of Housing Development, where he oversaw the affordable housing loan funds used to develop affordable rental, homeowner and special needs housing.
Prior to joining the CDC, Mr. Huang headed-up the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s community development, lending and tax credit investment activities in California. In that role, he was involved with urban revitalization in the downtown L.A. historic core, and with community development, organizational capacity building, and historic preservation in surrounding communities, such as Highland Park and Pasadena.
For almost ten years, Mr. Huang worked at the Los Angeles Community Design Center, a nonprofit development and architectural corporation. As Development Project Manager, Architectural Director, and eventually, Deputy Director of that organization, he developed over 1,000 units of affordable housing, and designed over 400 housing units, as well as numerous community facilities. During that time, he also helped to start up several of L.A.’s leading community development corporations.
Mr. Huang is a licensed architect in California, and has a master’s degree in architecture from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. He has served on the board of directors of the Southern California Association of Nonprofit Housing (SCANPH) and as past board president of the Los Angeles Neighborhood Initiative (LANI). He has also been a long-time trainer for the Local Initiative Support Corporation (LISC) and the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation in the areas of affordable housing development and design.
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