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CISNEROS HONORED WITH PRESTIGIOUS 2007 “HOUSING PERSON OF THE YEAR” AWARD AT NHC 35th ANNUAL GALA

CityView Executive Chairman and Former HUD Secretary Henry Cisneros Recognized for Dedication to Providing America’s Working Families with Affordable Housing and Homeownership Opportunities

Washington, DC (June 21, 2007) – Henry Cisneros, executive chairman of CityView and former secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), was honored with the prestigious 2007 “Housing Person of the Year” Award at the National Housing Conference’s (NHC) 35th Annual Gala last night. He was recognized for his outstanding achievement as one of the nation’s most distinguished affordable housing leaders, especially in his role as executive chairman at CityView, a national housing investor that creates housing opportunities for America’s working families through the financing of homes. David Hill, chairman and CEO of Kimball Hill Homes, served as chair of the Gala Committee. Mayor Richard Daley of Chicago, U.S. Senator Christopher Dodd and U.S. Representative Barney Frank served as honorary vice chairs. The Gala was held at the National Building Museum in Washington, DC.

Major sponsors of this year’s Gala included Freddie Mac and Kimball Hill Homes. The PMI Group Inc. sponsored the VIP Reception and the Saban Family Foundation sponsored the Gala Reception. Countrywide Financial Corporation joined this special sponsorship list as the Gala Tribute Book sponsor.

“Without question Henry Cisneros has demonstrated a life-long dedication to providing affordable housing to America’s working families, and it was our distinct honor to present him with the NHC 2007 ‘Housing Person of the Year’ Award,” said NHC Chair Helen Kanovsky, COO of the AFL-CIO Housing Investment Trust. “As secretary of HUD, he is credited with initiating the transformation of public housing developments nationwide and with developing the policies that led to today's record homeownership rates. In addition, under his leadership, CityView has helped ensure thousands of affordable workforce homes.”

Since its inception in 2003, CityView has become a leader in financing solutions for homebuilders nationwide with more than $700 million in equity and $2 billion in real estate capacity. It has financed the building of more than 6,000 homes nationwide.

Prior to serving as the nation’s top housing official at HUD, Cisneros was chairman of Cisneros Asset Management Company, a fixed-income management firm operating across the country. He was also the first Hispanic-American mayor of a major U.S. city, San Antonio, Texas. During his four terms in office he helped rebuild the city’s economic base and spurred the creation of jobs through massive infrastructure and downtown improvements, marking San Antonio as one of the nation’s most progressive cities.

Cisneros has served as president of the National League of Cities, chairman of the National Civic League, deputy chair of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, as a board member of the Rockefeller Foundation, and is national chairman of After School All-Stars, a nonprofit organization focused on bringing comprehensive after-school programs to at-risk middle-school students, keeping them safe and helping them achieve in school and in life. He currently serves on the board of directors of Countrywide Financial, as well as Homes for Working Families, a national, non-profit organization dedicated to advancing policy changes that enable more of America's working families to find safe, good-quality homes they can afford.

Cisneros was recently featured in Builder Magazine’s 2006 list of the Top 50 “Most Influential People in Home Building,” and in Latino Leaders’ list of the Top 101 “Leaders in the Hispanic Community.” He was also awarded the United States Hispanic Leadership Institute’s “Hispanic Hero Award.” On June 9, he was inducted into the National Association of Home Builders’ “National Housing Hall of Fame.”


For additional information, please go to NHC 2007 “Housing Person of the Year” Annual Gala.


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About CityView
CityView is a national discretionary housing investor with $2 billion of real estate capacity focused on creating the highest quality of housing for America’s working families. CityView makes workforce housing happen by offering a flexible source of combined debt and equity and by providing partner homebuilders with its “capital plus” strategy – a one-stop resource for land acquisition, entitlement support, governmental assistance, marketing, community outreach and project insurance. CityView has offices in Chicago, Dallas, San Antonio, and Santa Monica. For more information about CityView, visit www.City-View.net.

About the National Housing Conference
For more than 75 years, the National Housing Conference (NHC) has been the nation’s premier public policy and housing advocacy organization. A coalition of affordable housing experts from the public and private sectors, it is an essential source of broad, nonpartisan information concerning national housing policy. For additional information, please go to www.nhc.org.

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