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Barton Harvey to Give Dunlop Lecture at Harvard
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F. Barton Harvey |
| F. Barton Harvey, chairman and CEO of Enterprise Community Partners, which has worked with more than 1,200 community-based nonprofit organizations to provide decent, affordable housing and a path out of poverty for low-income families, will deliver the eighth annual John T. Dunlop Lecture in Cambridge, Mass. on Oct. 3. The lecture is co-sponsored by the National Housing Endowment and the Harvard University Joint Center for Housing Studies.
Harvey, who is also chairman of Enterprise Community Investment and a Harvard alumnus, took over leadership of Enterprise Community Partners in 1993 from co-founder James W. Rouse after working with Rouse for 10 years.
During Harvey’s tenure, Enterprise has grown into a leading provider of development capital and expertise to create decent, affordable homes and rebuild communities. Enterprise has raised and invested $7 billion in equity, grants and loans and is currently investing in communities at a rate of $1 billion a year.
In addition, Rouse and Harvey are credited with working with Congress to create the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit, which, after 20 years of bi-partisan support, provides the financing for the vast majority of affordable rental homes across the country. Harvey assisted Rouse with the work of the National Housing Task Force and was appointed to the Mitchell-Danforth Task Force on the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit, both in 1988.
Harvey also was appointed by Congress to the Millennial Housing Commission in 2002 and has served on a number of housing-related boards, including The Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta, the National Housing Conference and the National Housing Trust.
Harvey has testified before Congress on a number of community development issues and has had articles published in several journals and periodicals. He received his MBA and BA degrees from Harvard University in 1974 and 1971, respectively.
Under Harvey’s leadership, Enterprise brought leaders from the environmental and green building fields together to create Green Communities™ in 2004. This $555 million initiative is half way to its five-year goal of building more than 8,500 affordable homes that promote health, conserve energy and natural resources and promote easy access to jobs, schools and services.
Before joining Rouse at Enterprise in 1984, Harvey served in various domestic and international positions for the investment bank Dean Witter Reynolds.
 The lecture series honors John T. Dunlop, Lamont University professor emeritus of Harvard University from 1985 to 2003 and advisor to U.S. presidents, beginning with Franklin D. Roosevelt. He also was the secretary of labor during the Ford Administration. In 1986, Dunlop was named to the NAHB Housing Hall of Fame. He also was a founding trustee of the endowment.
The Dunlop Lecture is open to the public. For more information, e-mail Elizabeth England, of the Joint Center for Housing Studies, or call her at 617-495-7640.
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