Congratulations to our Board Secretary, the Incoming Executive Director of MAHA, Symone Crawford

After 34 years at the Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance, Tom Callahan is passing the torch. Last month, MAHA announced that Symone Crawford will be its next Executive Director. Crawford will be one of the first women of color to lead a statewide nonprofit housing organization in Massachusetts when she assumes the new position on January 1, 2022. We are so proud of Symone’s accomplishments with the STASH program and looking forward to the next chapter of good trouble for our organizations.

Symone Crawford isn’t even running the show yet at the Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance, and her pet project there is already part of national legislation.

About two weeks ago, Crawford made the case at a congressional hearing for the federal government to invest in a program that’s similar to the one she runs at MAHA. The goal is to provide some support for people who can’t access the “bank of Mom and Dad,” as the alliance puts it. The local program, dubbed STASH and funded in part by private donations and the city of Boston, has helped more than 200 homebuyers since its inception two years ago.

Read it in the Boston Globe