Affordable Housing Awards (AHA) Breakfast Honors Bill Pavão

The Affordable Housing Awards (AHA) Breakfast

Thursday, March 25, 2010, 7:30am, Garden Grove Community Center, 11300 Stanford Ave., Garden Grove, CA
Sponsors: The Kennedy Commission, The Affordable Housing Clearinghouse and Orange County Community Housing Corporation

Please email RSVP's to allen@occhc.org $30 Seating is limited to 1st 200. Sponsorships are available and solicited.
We are very pleased to announce that our Honoree for this year's Affordable Housing Awards Breakfast will be California Tax Credit Allocation Committee Executive Director Bill Pavao.

Mr. Pavão's persistent advocacy for deeper housing affordability while at the California Housing and Community Development Department and, now, as Executive Director a TCAC are well known and will be honored by the AHA Breakfast which is focused on those who have advocated and/or produced housing for extremely low income families.

State Treasurer Phil Angelides appointed William Pavão as the Executive Director to the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee (TCAC) in August 2005.

Mr. Pavão came to TCAC from the State Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) where he was serving as Deputy Director over the Division of Financial Assistance Division. Bill had been heading up the Department's programs division since March 1997.

Since coming to TCAC, Mr. Pavão has initiated an effort to operate a more transparent, participatory program. His efforts have included clarifying and streamlining regulatory changes, greater disclosure of decision-making and greater use of TCAC's website for disseminating information. In addition, Mr. Pavão is now holding monthly Southern California office hours out of the Treasurer's downtown Los Angeles office.

Mr. Pavão has both a Bachelor's and a Master's Degree from the University of California at Berkeley in Social Welfare program planning and administration. His undergraduate career included an internship with the East Bay Gray Panthers' housing committee; a directorship of a nonprofit renters organization; and an internship with the City of Berkeley's Rent Stabilization Board. Before entering graduate school, Mr. Pavão spent a year as a VISTA neighborhood organizer in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Mr. Pavão was born in Southern California's Inland Empire, raised in the Central Valley, and educated in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Other honorees will be announced at the breakfast.

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