Staff of CHC
Jeff Loustau
Executive Director, California Housing Consortium/CHC Institute
At CHC Jeff coordinates education and advocacy efforts of a statewide ‘big tent’ membership representing the private, public, and non-profit sectors of the housing industry. He serves a dynamic board of directors committed to enhancing housing production and affordability throughout California. Through CHC’s Policy Leadership Task Force, policy forums, and regional roundtable panels, Jeff helps coordinate the organization’s policy work – from sustaining catalytic public funding to promoting reasonable regulatory reform and encouraging sensible land-use planning. In 2006 Jeff served as Treasurer of the successful YES on PROP 1C housing bond campaign which provides $2.85 billion for transitional homeless shelter, rental apartments, and affordable homeownership housing as well as unprecedented incentive funding for infill and transit-oriented development.
An experienced housing developer in creating quality mixed-income/mixed use housing developments, Jeff has facilitated the creation of over 3,500 units of multi-family rental and ownership housing in California. He has a proven track record of working in both the non-profit and for-profit housing development sectors, has demonstrated a consistent involvement in matters of land use and housing policy, and is able to work effectively among diverse interest groups.
Prior to joining CHC, Jeff served as Vice President at A.F. Evans Development, Inc., as Director of Special Projects for BRIDGE Housing Corporation, and as Vice President/Director of Development for The John Stewart Company (all active CHC members).
Mr. Loustau has a Master of City Planning degree from MIT and a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Notre Dame. He is a licensed California architect.
Alli Warren
Program Associate
Alli began working with CHC in June 2008. Previously, she served as the Development Associate at Small Press Distribution, the only non-profit literary distributor in the country. With CHC, she hopes to expand this non-profit experience to the affordable housing realm.
Alli works as a curator of the New Reading Series at 21 Grand and is an active member of the Bay Area’s writing community. Her interest in urban issues began while reading William Whyte’s City: Rediscovering the Center, and Jane Jacob’s The Death And Life of Great American Cities. Whyte and Jacobs set an important precedent for the work of a writer-activist-urbanist. In the same way that artistic producers need healthy communities to thrive, so too do the working families and citizens of the state of California. This overlap is just one of the ways that working with CHC is both essential and exciting.
Alli is a graduate of the University of California at Santa Cruz, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in Philosophy and Literature.
Eric Mackres
Program Manager
Eric coordinates logistics and program work at CHC. His work and interests include regional planning, transit oriented development, green building and their social and environmental benefits. His CHC projects include linking affordable housing to the larger sustainable development movement in California.
Prior to his work at CHC, Eric ran community organizing and membership building programs in for environmental and social justice groups in Michigan. He has also done legislative advocacy and organizing in Michigan as well as student organizing work across the country. His advocacy work began in college as the driving force behind the creation of a campus energy-efficency student living-learning center. Finding consensus among diverse groups for a mutually benifical future is a theme running throughout his work.
Eric is a graduate of Albion College in Michigan, where he earned his Bachelor's Degree in Political Science, Public Policy and Environmental Studies. In the fall of 2008 Eric will begin graduate study with the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at Massachusetts Institute of Technology with an emphasis in environmental policy.
Founded in 1997, the California Housing Consortium (CHC) is an affiliate of the National Housing Conference, the nation’s premier housing advocacy organization. Membership of the California Housing Consortium is comprised of a diverse group of nonprofit and for-profit developers, lenders, representatives from State and local government agencies, housing professionals and specialists, property managers and owners, residents and business leaders.
