{"id":68857,"date":"2024-09-27T11:38:18","date_gmt":"2024-09-27T15:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/?p=68857"},"modified":"2026-04-10T11:44:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T15:44:19","slug":"wlwt-5-alum-reggie-harris-accepts-position-u-s-department-of-housing-and-urban-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wlwt-5-alum-reggie-harris-accepts-position-u-s-department-of-housing-and-urban-development\/","title":{"rendered":"WLWT 5: Alum Reggie Harris (SSW\u201915) Accepts Position at U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Reggie Harris (SSW\u201915), a BU School of Social Work (BUSSW) alum and former <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/reggie-harris-ssw15-elected-cincinnati-city-council\/\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Cincinnati city council member<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, has taken a new role as deputy assistant secretary of economic development at the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hud.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. In his statement announcing his departure from city council, Harris emphasized his ongoing commitment to public service and housing advocacy, aiming to have a broader impact at the federal level in supporting cities. Previously, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/winners-2021-alumni-association-awards\/\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">he won the Hubie Jones Urban Service Award<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> at the BUSSW 2021 <\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">Alumni Association Awards<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:240,&quot;335559739&quot;:240,&quot;335559740&quot;:279}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Excerpt from \u201c<\/span><\/i><\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wlwt.com\/article\/cincinnati-councilmember-reggie-harris-resignation-housing\/62358475\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><b><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Cincinnati Councilmember Reggie Harris Resigns, Accepts Position with HUD<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/a><b><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201d by Matthew Dietz:\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:240,&quot;335559739&quot;:240,&quot;335559740&quot;:279}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In a statement on Tuesday, Harris said he will oversee more than $7 million in HUD-managed economic development and housing funds.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:279}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u2018I ran for Cincinnati City Council as a continuation of my lifelong commitment to public service, and accepting this role will continue that journey. I&#8217;m a social worker by trade, who found myself at the forefront of helping to provide quality affordable housing for those in need in the Avondale Community. In my time in office, I&#8217;ve continued that work and fought to grow Cincinnati and make it the most inclusive city it can possibly be. Now, I will head the call to continue that work upstream and have an even greater impact to make sure that our partners at the Federal level are giving cities an opportunity to receive the support they need,\u2019 the statement from Harris said in part.\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:279}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wlwt.com\/article\/cincinnati-councilmember-reggie-harris-resignation-housing\/62358475\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"button\">Read the full article<\/a><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/alumni-friends\/alumni-events\/alumni-news\/\">Read More BUSSW Alumni News<\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reggie Harris (SSW\u201915), a BU School of Social Work (BUSSW) alum and former Cincinnati city council member, has taken a new role as deputy assistant secretary of economic development at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). In his statement announcing his departure from city council, Harris emphasized his ongoing commitment to public [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19132,"featured_media":55934,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7547,7428,7518,7440,4057],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68857"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19132"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68857"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80974,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68857\/revisions\/80974"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}