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Brendan Goodwin

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Brendan Goodwin

Organization

Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston

Program

Rappaport Public Policy Fellow

Year

2009

Rappaport Public Policy Fellows spend 10 weeks each summer serving within the highest levels of state and municipal governments in the Greater Boston Area. The program includes students from graduate and professional programs at local universities.

Graduate School
Tufts University

Undergraduate School
Xavier University

Mentor
Amy Dain, Consultant, former Rappaport Policy Fellow and Rappaport Advisory Board Member

Agency
Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community Development

Supervisor
Amy Schectman, Associate Director, Division of Public Housing and Rental Assistance

Description of Fellowship
Brendan Goodwin worked at the Department of Housing and Community Development on a project to strengthen the State’s public housing program by exploring an opportunity to federalize state-assisted public housing developments using funds from the stimulus bill. The department is now working with housing authorities to implement this strategy, which may preserve thousands of units of public housing in Massachusetts while saving theState significant resources that can then be used to better sustain the remaining portfolio by providing housing authorities with higher operating and capital funds.