Janine Cuneo

Biography: Janine Cuneo Project Director, Terwilliger Center ULI - the Urban Land Institute Washington, DC Janine Cuneo is Project Director at ULI Terwilliger Center for Workforce Housing, a new initiative for the Urban Land Institute whose goal is to measurably increase the production of workforce housing by the private sector. In this capacity, Cuneo is leading the Terwilliger Center's Washington, D.C. metro region pilot market by recruiting and managing over seventy volunteer professionals, designing and developing local workforce housing initiatives, and engaging partners and employers in the effort. Cuneo has been working in housing and community-based development industries for the past ten years. She has served as Presidential Management Fellow for the long-term recovery efforts in the Gulf Coast post-Hurricane Katrina for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to develop policy guidelines, supply technical assistance, and provide regulatory oversight of the state-level housing recovery programs. Additionally, she administered more than thirty grants for eight jurisdictions in northern and central California as a Community Development Specialist for Mercy Housing California, a national non-profit affordable housing developer and services provide, focused on affordable housing strategies and programs. Finally, as Executive Director for Andre House of Hospitality, a homeless services provider in Phoenix, AZ, Cuneo led, developed, and managed all on-site operations, including supervising direct services for the homeless and procuring grant funding. Hailing from northern California, Cuneo earned a MBA from the University of Notre Dame and a Master in Regional Planning from Cornell University, both with high honors. She has utilized her research skills in a Harvard University funded Inclusionary Housing Study and in a study titled "Monetizing the Effects of Regulatory Barriers on Affordable Housing" jointly funded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development & Rutgers University's Center for Urban Policy Research. (Sept. 08)