Elinor Bacon

Biography: Elinor R. Bacon- #25761 President, ER Bacon Development, LLC 2002 Elinor Bacon is President of ER Bacon Development, LLC, a real estate and community development company focusing on urban redevelopment. ERBD is a partner in Hoffman Madison Waterfront, developer of DC's Wharf, completed in 2022; and also partnered with Hoffman & Associates on several other developments to redevelop church properties, including 525 Water Street and The Banks. Previously, as CEO, Bacon launched the National Capital Revitalization Corporation (NCRC) in Washington, DC, a quasi-public real estate development corporation. Ms. Bacon served as HUD's Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public Housing Investments during the second Clinton Administration, under Secretary Andrew Cuomo. In this capacity, she administered the $4.2 billion HOPE VI. Program and other Public Housing Capital Programs, with annual appropriations of approximately $2.5 billion. Before joining HUD, Ms. Bacon was a private real estate developer and consultant in Baltimore where she established her firm, Bacon & Company, in 1985. She started her career in housing as Baltimore's first woman inspector of homes undergoing rehabilitation with State and Federal subsidies. She has participated in international builds for Habitat for Humanity in Guyana, Papua New Guinea, Mozambique and Peru, and has received awards for her work in HOPE VI from the DC Chapter of the American Institute of Architects/Washington Architecture Foundation, the University of Maryland Colvin School of Business, and others. She received an MA in Chinese Studies from the University of California, Berkeley; and a BA from The New School for Social Research.