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The Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance is losing its leader of 30 years as Executive Director Tom Callahan plans to retire at the end of 2021.
In an email to supporters and journalists, MAHA board president Esther Dupie praised Callahan’s long stewardship of the organization, which runs homebuyer training programs for underserved communities, worked with Boston’s biggest banks to create the ONE Mortgage program and has successfully lobbied to expand provisions of the state Community Reinvestment Act to cover mortgage companies.
“MAHA, the entire affordable housing community, and thousands of first-time homebuyers have all benefitted from Tom’s impeccable vision and talents through the years. I speak for our staff, board and many external funders and partners who have enjoyed working with Tom. We are enormously grateful to him for his many contributions,” she said.
The MAHA board of directors has hired Gregg Davis of Impact Consults and TSNE MissionWorks to oversee the executive director search and the transition process.
“I’m so proud to have been a small part of such a committed, supportive team of staff and board members. It has been the honor of a lifetime to have been entrusted by MAHA’s board to lead this incredible organization that is so singularly committed to building a more just, more equitable housing market for people of color and for first-time and first-generation homebuyers,” Callahan said in a statement. “MAHA is strong, healthy and growing. I’m excited to see what MAHA will accomplish in the years to come.”
