NHC Housing Person of the Year Award Recipients

2008
F. Barton (Bart) Harvey III, Former Chairman, Enterprise Community Partners

2007
Henry Cisneros, former secretary, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, executive chairman, CityView

2006
75th Anniversary of the National Housing Conference

2005
Stephen M. Ross, chairman and CEO, The Related Companies, L.P. and chairman and founder of CharterMac

2004
Angelo R. Mozilo, chairman and CEO, Countrywide Financial Corporation

2003
Co-chairs of Millennial Housing Commission, The Honorable Susan Molinari and Richard Ravitch

2002
Robert E. Rubin, chairman of the executive committee, Citigroup, Inc., and chairman of the board, Local Initiatives Support Corporation

2001
Leland C. Brendsel, chairman and CEO, Freddie Mac

2000
Mary Lee Widener, president and CEO, Neighborhood Housing Services of America, Inc.

1999
Hugh L. McColl, Jr., chairman and CEO, Bank of America

1998
Patricia T. Rouse, co-founder, vice president and secretary, The Enterprise Foundation

1997
J. Roderick Heller, III, chairman and CEO, NHP Incorporated

1996
65th Anniversary of the National Housing Conference re-honoring past award recipients

1995
Cushing N. Dolbeare, founder, National Low Income Housing Coalition

1994
Marvin S. Gilman, president, The Gilman Group, Ltd.

1993
Project LEND

1992
AFL-CIO Housing Investment Trust
Christmas in April*USA

1991
60th Anniversary of the National Housing Conference

1990
Fannie Mae

1989
Eugene F. Ford, Sr., chairman of the board, Mid-City Financial Corporation

1988
Senator Alan Cranston
Senator Alfonse M. D'Amato

1987
George M. Brady, chairman, National Corporation for Housing Partnerships

1986
Leo Zickler, president, Oxford Development Corporation

1985
Lawrence B. Simons, partner, Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy, LLP

1984
Leon N. Weiner, chairman of the board, Leon N. Weiner & Associates, Inc.

1983
David O. Maxwell, chairman of the board, Fannie Mae

1982
Philip N. Brownstein, partner, Brownstein Zeidman and Schomer

1981
Thomas F. Murphy, chairman, Masonry Industry Committee, and former president of the International Union of Bricklayers

1980
George W. DeFranceaux, chairman, National Corporation for Housing Partnerships

1979
William Sidell, president, United Brotherhood of Carpenters, and chairman of AFL-CIO Housing Committee

1978
Senator John Sparkman

1977
Nathaniel H. Rogg, retired executive director, National Association of Home Builders

1976
Robert A. Georgine, president, AFL-CIO Building and Construction Trades Department

1975
David L. Krooth, advocate-at-large, Better Housing and Communities for the American People

1974
Walter E. Washington, mayor, Washington, DC

1973
Nathaniel S. Keith, chairman of the board, National Housing Conference