Small in number, but very dedicated, the Coalition's staff works out of our Raleigh office, where they keep on top of the latest housing news and issues, stay proactive, and work to promote housing opportunities for low-income North Carolinians.

If you would like to contact any of our staff, please click here, and put their name in the subject field.

Chris Estes, Executive Director

Chris joined the Housing Coalition as its Executive Director in September, 2003 with a variety of experiences related to low-income communities and affordable housing.  Chris recently completed a masters in Social Work and a masters in City and Regional Planning, both from UNC-CH. He works closely with the Coalition's partners on our legislative agenda and in promoting the Campaign for Housing Carolina campaign across the state.  He hopes to broaden the membership of the Coalition while increasing its impact on the production of affordable housing and improving the quality of life of low-income communities. In his free time he enjoys spending time with his wife Cherie and stepson Wilson as well as cycling, backpacking, and listening to live music.
 

Regina M. Green, Foreclosure Outreach Coordinator

The NC Housing Coalition is partnering with Legal Aid of NC, NC Justice Center and five other Legal Aid non-profit agencies working on a one-year grant award from Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation on a foreclosure prevention project.  Regina serves as the community education outreach coordinator for the project.  The Coalition’s role in the project is to identify communities that are at risk in order to get them better connected to Legal Aid services; increase community engagement and consumer advocacy by raising awareness on policy issues; and coordinate six consumer education meetings around the state with partner attorneys making presentations on topics including predatory lending, preserving equity and loan servicing abuses. The objective is to take a more pro-active approach to the problem of the drastic increasing rate of foreclosures in North Carolina. Regina enjoys spending time with her sons and granddaughters and can often be found in her kitchen cooking up a storm.
 

Hunter Thompson, Director, Carolina Homeless Information Network

Hunter heads up the Housing Coalition's newest program: CHIN (Carolina Homeless Information Network).  We are working in collaboration with the NC Coalition to End Homelessness to bring about a statewide information database of homeless service providers.  This will serve local agency record-keeping needs as well as provide local, regional and statewide unduplicated demographic data about NC's homeless population for the first time.  For contact information, please click here.
 

 
Laura McDuffee, Lead Coordinator, Carolina Homeless Information Network
 

 
Holly Barham, Western Regional Coordinator, Carolina Homeless Information Network
 

Michael Tillman, Central Regional Coordinator, Carolina Homeless Information Network 

Rob Tripp, Eastern Regional Coordinator, Carolina Homeless Information Network 

John has been involved with the Coalition since September 2005, when he began his internship in coordination with his studies at UNC-CH. He received his masters in Social Work in May 2006, and was hired as Membership Coordinator in July 2006. John puts together the Coalition's bi-monthly Housing Updates, interacts with members, and works to increase the Coalition's visibility. In his spare time, he makes music, mountain bikes, and stays active.

Susanna Birdsong, Intern

Susanna started working with the Coalition in May 2007, and will be interning for a year while she finishes her masters in Social Work at UNC-CH.  During her time with the Coalition, Susanna will be helping to create and edit Coalition publications and will be busy learning as much as she can about advocacy work, non-profit management, and life in general from all the Coalition staff, board, partners and members.  Before work at the Coalition and graduate school, Susanna worked as a youth programs coordinator for Habitat for Humanity International.  In her spare time, she loves to travel, spend time with her husband J.B. and dog Sadie, and is learning to play the fiddle, one note on one string at a time.

Board of Directors

Our Board of Directors consists of a diverse group of interested persons from the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. Our by-laws state that consumers of low-income housing also be seated on the Board and that one half of the Board be repsented by organizations that serve low-income people.  Click on the link above to see the full list of Board of Directors.

The Coalition can be reached at the address shown below.

North Carolina Housing Coalition
224 South Dawson Street
Raleigh, NC 27601

Phone: (919) 881-0707
Fax: (919) 881-0350
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