John Emmeus Davis
John Emmeus Davis is a partner and co-founder of Burlington Associates in Community Development, a national consulting cooperative specializing in the development of policies and programs promoting permanently affordable, owner-occupied housing.
He was the housing director for Burlington, Vermont in the mayoral administrations of Bernie Sanders and Peter Clavelle. He also planned and coordinated the city’s Enterprise Community.
Davis has taught housing policy and neighborhood planning at Tufts University, New Hampshire College, the University of Vermont, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was on the founding board of the National CLT Academy and served for a number of years as the Academy’s Dean.
ARTICLES IN SHELTERFORCE since jan 08
- Homes That Last
Counter-cyclical stewardship is the only way to ensure that lower-income families are neither nudged out by rising costs nor forced out by foreclosure.
- Taxation of Shared-Equity Homes
- Toward a Common Agenda
Growing shared-equity housing
- Introduction
RESEARCH FOR NHI
POSTS ON ROOFLINES
- 6 May 13 · A New Kind of Redlining: Punishing Success
- 28 Mar 13 · Braided Lives: Habitat–Land Trust Partnerships Bring Each Back to Their Roots
- 10 Jan 13 · Precarious Values and Permeable Edges in Community Development
- 6 Dec 12 · The Threat (and Promise) of a Good Example
- 31 Oct 12 · The Untapped Potential of Land Bank/Land Trust Partnerships
- 27 Aug 12 · No Time for Timidity
- 8 Aug 12 · Nine Rules of Engagement for Recruiting and Retaining Community Volunteers
- 27 Jul 12 · Yes They Can. And They Bloody Well Did
National Housing Institute
