Bill Eager

Vice President, Chicago

Preservation of Affordable Housing, Inc.

Biography:

Bill Eager Bio As POAH's Vice President for the Chicago area, Bill oversees all multifamily development activity for POAH’s Chicago regional office as well as the implementation of a $30.5 million HUD Choice Neighborhoods Initiative focused on the Woodlawn community. He supervises project managers in the development process from acquisition to completion of construction and lease-up including, financial analysis, design and construction, on-time and on-budget closings and full lease-up. Bill brings more than fifteen years’ experience in economic development, affordable housing development and municipal finance, most recently as Acting Manager Deputy Commissioner for Chicago's Department of Housing and Economic Development's Housing Bureau. He managed the $500 million annual tax increment finance program and the $100 million housing development budget for the City of Chicago. In the 1990s, Bill worked as a newspaper reporter and editor for the Times Union in Albany, NY, the Transcript-Telegram in Holyoke, MA and the Evening News in Westfield, MA. He holds a master’s degree in public policy from the University of Chicago and a B.A. in English from the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth.

Biography: Bill Eager Bio As POAH's Vice President for the Chicago area, Bill oversees all multifamily development activity for POAH’s Chicago regional office as well as the implementation of a $30.5 million HUD Choice Neighborhoods Initiative focused on the Woodlawn community. He supervises project managers in the development process from acquisition to completion of construction and lease-up including, financial analysis, design and construction, on-time and on-budget closings and full lease-up. Bill brings more than fifteen years’ experience in economic development, affordable housing development and municipal finance, most recently as Acting Manager Deputy Commissioner for Chicago's Department of Housing and Economic Development's Housing Bureau. He managed the $500 million annual tax increment finance program and the $100 million housing development budget for the City of Chicago. In the 1990s, Bill worked as a newspaper reporter and editor for the Times Union in Albany, NY, the Transcript-Telegram in Holyoke, MA and the Evening News in Westfield, MA. He holds a master’s degree in public policy from the University of Chicago and a B.A. in English from the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth.

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