Officers Elected for Housing Commission
[Jefferson City, Mo.] -- State Treasurer Sarah Steelman was
re-elected as Chairman of the Missouri Housing Development
Commission during the Commission’s Annual Meeting May 19 in
Jefferson City. This will be her second year in the post. Rob
Fulp of Springfield was re-elected as Vice Chairman while Bill
Luetkenhaus of St. Charles will again serve as
Secretary-Treasurer for the Commission.
By
Missouri statute, the Commission consists of the governor,
lieutenant governor, the state treasurer, the state attorney
general, and six members selected by the governor, with the
advice and consent of the Senate.
Current
Commission members include Governor Matt Blunt, Lt. Gov. Peter
Kinder, Attorney General Jay Nixon, Anne B. Schmidt of
Florissant, Loren Cook II of Springfield, and Richard F.
Baalmann, Sr., of Kirkwood.
MHDC is
the state's housing finance agency. The Commission is dedicated
to strengthening communities and the lives of Missourians
through the financing, development and preservation of
affordable housing.
The
Missouri Housing Development Commission has invested almost $4
billion for rental housing developments, preservation of
affordable rental housing, home mortgages, home improvement
loans, grants to neighborhood housing groups, and other housing
programs. MHDC functions as a bank, providing financing directly
to borrowers or through a network of private lending
institutions.
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