Lori R. Gay is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Neighborhood Housing Services (NHS) of Los Angeles County, a non-profit lender, developer, and neighborhood revitalization corporation. She has worked in the community development field for over 20 years, and has focused her efforts on rebuilding impoverished communities and creating mechanisms for community empowerment and ownership.
NHS is a non-profit committed to creating lifelong homeowners and stable communities for families of modest means throughout Los Angeles County. Since 1984, NHS has developed and rehabilitated over 12,600 housing and commercial units, placed 2.3 families on the road to homeownership, created 175 block clubs, employed 200 neighborhood youth, and invested more than $2.3 billion back into some of Los Angeles’ toughest neighborhoods.
Mrs. Gay has served on numerous boards and community coalitions which further social policy agendas and implementation of community development initiatives. She is a board member of the National NeighborWorks® Association and a member of the FDIC’s Alliance for Economic Inclusion Steering Committee. Some of her activities have included serving on the NHSA-Just Price Solutions Oversight Committee, Chair of the California Organized Investment Network (COIN), and is a former Board Member of the California Housing Finance Agency (CalHFA), Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Los Angeles Branch, and the Washington Mutual Advisory Council.
Mrs. Gay has worked for NHS since 1990, holds an MBA degree from Pepperdine University and a BS degree in Development, Resource and Consumer Economics from the University of California at Davis. She is a licensed minister, married to Bob Gay, and mother of five children.
Neighborhood Housing Services of Los Angeles County (NHS), formerly known as LA NHS, has expanded to serve all of Los Angeles County. NHS serves as a catalyst for local residents, business and government representatives to work together to build stronger neighborhoods, improve the quality of life for families of modest means and to revitalize communities into neighborhoods of choice. NHS strengthens communities through the development and maintenance of quality affordable housing, creation and preservation of affordable homeownership opportunities, support of local leaders, providing financial education and increasing the financial independence of families and people in need.
What We Do
- Foreclosure Prevention – Center for Foreclosure Solutions
- Financial & Homebuyer Education
- Affordable Mortgage Lending
- Construction Services
- Community Revitalization
- Real Estate Services
Our Objectives
- Promote healthy communities through homeownership
- Encourage resident empowerment and leadership
- Promote reinvestment in declining neighborhoods
- Restore confidence in neighborhoods
- Foster neighborhood stability
- Stimulate the private housing and commercial markets
Website: www.lanhs.org
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