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Week of December 6, 2004

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* Ron Terwilliger Named Chair of Multifamily Leadership Board
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Ron Terwilliger Named Chair of Multifamily Leadership Board

Ron Terwilliger, chairman and CEO of Atlanta-based Trammell Crow Residential, was reappointed as chairman of NAHB’s Multifamily Leadership Board. The leadership board represents the interests of the nation’s largest companies that own, develop and manage both market-rate and affordable apartments and condominiums.

Terwilliger has been instrumental in the expansion of NAHB’s representation among members of the multifamily industry, and in firmly establishing the Multifamily Leadership Board as a critical component of NAHB’s multifamily operations. He first served as chairman of the leadership board in September 2002.

“The trend toward urban infill construction and higher-density suburban development has created a huge demand for condominiums, as well as a market for the rental lifestyle among young professionals,” said Terwilliger. “We will continue to use NAHB’s vast resources to help advance the many important issues facing multifamily housing construction today.”


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“We are delighted that someone of Ron’s stature and influence will continue to play such a visible role in our association,” said NAHB President Bobby Rayburn. “This country still has critical housing needs, and it is important to keep housing at the top of the national agenda, especially housing that is affordable to America’s working families.”

Current priorities for NAHB’s Multifamily Leadership Board include:

  • Encouraging smart growth initiatives that promote higher density housing
  • Debunking the negative stereotypes associated with apartments that can lead to opposition to multifamily development
  • Enacting meaningful tort reform
  • Protecting and enhancing the Low Income Housing Tax Credit program
  • Supporting the enactment of a multifamily production program to help meet the nation’s demand for quality rental housing affordable to working families

Trammell Crow Residential, which Terwilliger has headed since 1986, is an acknowledged industry frontrunner in the development, construction and management of high-quality multifamily assets. It is the only full-service multifamily firm that has done business on a national level for more than two decades.

Terwilliger is past chairman of the Urban Land Institute, where he continues to serve on the executive committee. Additionally, he is chairman emeritus of the Wharton Real Estate Center, immediate past chairman of the Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership and a member of the International Board of Directors and Executive Committee of Habitat for Humanity.
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