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Shashaty Receives Corletta Affordable Housing Award
 Affordable housing journalist and advocate Andre Shashaty recently received the 2005 Robert J. Corletta Award for Achievement in Affordable Housing from NAHB and the Neighborhood Development Collaborative.
The award was established in 1999 in memory of Corletta, who was one of the Collaborative’s founders and a long-time multifamily developer for NAHB.
“Andre Shashaty has a consistent history of demonstrating how much he cares by using the power of the pen to address the really difficult issues which often determine whether or not organizations such as the Collaborative can fully carry out the mission to create and preserve desirable housing with affordable rents,” said David Cole, the Collaborative’s chief operating officer.
“He has courageously paved the way to remove affordable housing barriers and correct many mistakes in the past,” Cole said. “In so many ways, he is the voice of affordable housing.”
Shashaty publishes Affordable Housing Finance and Apartment Finance Today magazines, and he is the founding executive director of The Campaign for Affordable Housing: a Partnership for Public Education, a non-profit, non-partisan organization promoting public support for affordable housing programs.
Past Corletta Award winners include: Judith Siegel of the Landex Corporation; Larry Swank of The Sterling Group; Ted Dinerstein, founder of The Dinerstein Companies; Bob Gould of the Riley Mortgage Group; Rep. Nancy L. Johnson (R-Conn.); and Sterling D. Knight, Jr., the deputy assistant secretary for multifamily housing programs at the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
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