Allison Ladd

Allison Ladd spearheads Newark’s housing and development efforts. Under her leadership, Ms. Ladd has focused on implementing Mayor Ras J. Baraka’s equitable growth strategy: harnessing the many billions of dollars of new investment in Newark to create opportunities for all residents and businesses.

In Newark, Allison Ladd has led the development of new policies, programs and financing tools to preserve and expand affordable housing, minimize foreclosures, prevent evictions, help residents purchase their first homes, transform abandoned properties into neighborhood assets, and create mixed income housing through inclusionary zoning. She oversees the City’s Equitable Growth Commission and is Board Chair of Invest Newark, the quasi-governmental organization charged with strengthening Newark’s small businesses, implementing the City’s land bank and operating the nation’s fastest broadband fiber network.

As Deputy Director of the Washington, DC DHCD, Allison Ladd led a 180-person agency with over a $300 million annual budget. There Ms. Ladd spearheaded the transformation of a team that today is an award-winning agency. She effectively executed the financing of real estate development projects with loans in excess of $830 million. In addition, Ms. Ladd led the development of programs that preserved affordable housing to help generations of District residents remain in a high cost city.