DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING & COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

PATRICIA J. PAYNE, Secretary of Housing & Community Development

Office of Secretary
Dept. of Housing & Community Development
100 Community Place
Crownsville, MD 21032 - 2023
(410) 514-7005
fax: (410) 987-4070
World Wide Web: http://www.dhcd.state.md.us

Secretary of Housing and Community Development since 1995.

Senior Community Organization Advisor, Department of Housing and Community Development, Baltimore City, 1965-71. Chief, Housing Programs, 1971-75, and Director, Program Coordination, 1975-79, Regional Planning Council. Acting Director, Special Planning Division, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, 1979-81. Director, Policy and Governmental Relations, 1981-83, Home Ownership Programs, 1983-85, and Rental Housing Programs, 1985-88, Community Development Administration. Director of Finance, 1988-91, and Deputy Secretary, 1991-95, Department of Housing and Community Development. Member, Cabinet Council on Criminal and Juvenile Justice; Subcabinet for Children, Youth, and Families; Maryland Affordable Housing Trust; Housing Finance Review Committee; Community Reinvestment Board; Emergency Management Advisory Council; Interagency Committee on Aging Services.

Born in Washington, DC, July 27, 1942. University of Maryland College Park, B.A. (history & political science), 1964; University of Maryland at Baltimore, M.S.W., 1971; Sellinger School of Business, Loyola College, M.B.A., 1985. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (senior executive institute), 1990.

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