Acting Federal Housing Administration (FHA) Commissioner and Assistant Secretary for Housing,
Carol Galante

Carol J. Galante currently serves as Acting Assistant Secretary for Housing-FHA Commissioner, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. President Barack Obama appointed her in March 2009 as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Multifamily Housing programs, where she oversaw the largest ever expansion of the Multifamily portfolio.

As Acting FHA Commissioner, Ms. Galante has direct responsibility for oversight and administration of the FHA insurance portfolio, which includes multifamily housing, insured health care facilities and well over 20 percent of mortgages in the domestic single-family market. She is also responsible for several of HUD’s rental assistance programs, including 1.2 million units of Project Based Rental Assistance, and over 424,000 apartments for elderly and the disabled under the Section 202 and 811 programs.

Ms. Galante has been a leader of key Administration initiatives including Choice Neighborhoods, the Rental Assistance Demonstration, and other interagency alignment efforts.

Prior to her appointment at HUD, Ms. Galante was President and Chief Executive of BRIDGE Housing Corporation, the largest non-profit developer of affordable, mixed-income and mixed-use developments in California. BRIDGE is a hybrid organization blending the best of business practices and entrepreneurial ideas with a mission to create affordable homes and apartments. Prior to BRIDGE she was the Executive Director of Eden Housing, Inc.

In addition to her work in real estate development, ownership and management, Ms. Galante has also worked for the cities of Santa Barbara, Philadelphia and Richmond, CA, where she worked in city planning and community economic development. Ms. Galante has held numerous volunteer leadership positions including Director of Housing Partnership Network, California Housing Consortium, Center for Creative Land Recycling, Center for Housing Policy, and Urban Land Institute. She has been the recipient of many notable honors including Multifamily/Developer Magazine- Executive of the Year in 2008, Builder Magazine-Top Most Influential People in Homebuilding in 2006, and California Housing Consortium- Leadership Award and Hall of Fame.

Ms. Galante is a licensed real estate broker (currently inactive) and holds a Master of City Planning from U.C. Berkeley, and a Bachelor of Arts from Ohio Wesleyan.