To The Point, A Council of Large Public Housing Authorities Podcast

Send us Fan Mail CLPHA CEO La Shelle Dozier sits down with Jeff for an urgent discussion on protecting Restore-Rebuild, one of our nation's most critical tools for affordable housing development, following HUD's announcement of their intent to end the program. La Shelle breaks down what all of this means to public housing authorities and how CLPHA and our industry partners are opposing t...

Send us Fan Mail Recorded live at the 2026 Housing Is Summit in Washington, D.C., this episode features CLPHA Board Member and Boston Housing Authority Administrator Kenzie Bok. Kenzie tells Jeffery K. Patterson about BHA’s innovative eviction prevention partnership with HomeStart, efforts to improve residents’ economic mobility, and the agency’s First Home program supporting pathways to homeowner...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Jeffery K. Patterson chats with Gerry Cichon, CEO of the Housing Authority of the City of El Paso (HACEP). Gerry tells Jeffery how HACEP is pioneering the use of AI in PHA operations, using cutting-edge technology to help HACEP run more efficiently and serve its residents more effectively. He also discusses HACEP's successful homeownership program and its wor...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Maria Razo, newly elected Vice President of the Council of Large Public Housing Authorities and longtime Executive Director of the Housing Authority of the County of San Bernardino (HACSB), talks with Jeffery K. Patterson about her path into the affordable housing industry and her leadership priorities. As the 30-year anniversary of the creation of the Moving to W...

Send us Fan Mail  Jeffery K. Patterson sits down for a chat with his first repeat guest -- new CLPHA CEO La Shelle Dozier, who took the organization's helm in December 2025. La Shelle tells Jeffery about how she's adjusting to life in the nation's capital, her vision and goals for the organzation, how she plans to tackle the biggest opportunities and challenges facing PHAs in her ne...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode of To The Point , host Jeffery K. Patterson—CEO of the Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority and President of the Council of Large Housing Authorities—welcomes three students from UC Berkeley: Omeed Ansari, Yameen Arshad, and Harrison Haigood. As winners of the Innovation in Affordable Housing Student Design Competition, they share the story behind their award-wi...

Send us Fan Mail To The Point Host Jeffery K. Patterson sat down with CLPHA Board Member and Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles President and CEO Lourdes Castro Ramirez to discuss many topics, including beginning her role as CEO just as the wildfires in Los Angeles erupted. Jeffery and Lourdes also talked about HACLA's successful workforce development program, addressing veteran hom...

Send us Fan Mail Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb sits down with CLPHA President Jeffery K. Patterson to discuss the efforts of the National Housing Crisis Task Force to put forward bipartisan solutions to the nation's affordable housing crisis. As co-chair of the Task Force, Mayor Bibb highlights the important role that public housing authorities play in solving the crisis. The discussion was wid...

Send us Fan Mail Jeffery K. Patterson sits down with Richard Monocchio, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of HUD's Office of Public and Indian Housing, to discuss what he has learned as he completes his first year in office. Jeff and Rich discuss the innovations brought by MTW programs, the importance of cross-sector work in improving life outcomes for low-income families, and the pivotal...

Send us Fan Mail Home Forward CEO Ivory Mathews joined To The Point host Jeffery K. Patterson for a conversation about the Reimagining Home Forward Initiative. Ivory discusses how the initative addresses systemic racism by "calling up, calling out" racial injustices in Home Forward's history and is forging an inclusive path forward by implementing a racial harm policy for the staff...

Send us Fan Mail CLPHA Board President Jeffery K. Patterson sits down with Eugene Jones, Jr. to discuss a career spanning four decades and includes leading some of the nation's largest housing authorities including Kansas City, Chicago, Indianapolis, and most recently Atlanta from where he stepped down late last year. Gene describes what drew him to the public housing industry and the crisise...

Send us Fan Mail In a recent CLPHA member survey, 84 percent said access to behavioral and mental health services, including substance use treatment, is one of the biggest health challenges for their residents. PHA residents are dealing with everything from acute mental health crises to the stress and anxiety of living in poverty, but forward-thinking PHAs are collaborating with health partners to...

Send us Fan Mail Public housing authorities face the same cybersecurity threast as any large organization. H.A.I. Group CEO and cybersecurity expert Ed Malaspina joins host Jeffery K. Patterson to discuss what public housing authorities can do to protect themselves from the very real threat of cyberattacks. Thanks for listening to To The Point , a podcast of the Council of Large Public Housing Aut...

Send us Fan Mail The practice of redlining is where public and private officials and professionals designated certain neighborhoods as high-risk largely due to racial demographics. This led to denied loans or significantly higher interest rates in those neighborhoods. It institionalized racial bias, and denied generations of Black families the ability to build and transfer wealth. The repercussion...

Send us Fan Mail Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has declared a state of emergency on homelessness in the city. In this episode, host Jeffery K. Patterson sits down with the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles (HACLA) President and CEO Doug Guthrie and Council of Large Public Housing Authorities (CLPHA) Executive Director Sunia Zaterman to discuss why homelessness has become a humanitarian c...

Send us Fan Mail To The Point host Jeffery K. Patterson, CLPHA president and Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority CEO, discusses how public housing authorities are approaching race, equity, inclusion and belonging principles with Sunia Zaterman, CLPHA executive director; Karen Dubois-Walton, Elm City Communities CEO, and Adele James from Adele James Consulting. Thanks for listening to To The Po...

Send us Fan Mail Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority CEO and CLPHA President Jeffery K. Patterson sits down with CLPHA Executive Director Sunia Zaterman to discuss how CLPHA’s Housing Is Initiative has elevated collaborations between the housing and education sectors to improve education outcomes for low-income students of all ages, and Sunia explains how CLPHA member PHAs are pioneering these...

Send us Fan Mail Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority CEO and CLPHA President Jeffery K. Patterson sits down with CLPHA Executive Director Sunia Zaterman to discuss the history of the Choice Neighborhoods Initative (CNI). Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency Executive Director La Shelle Dozier also joins Jeffery to highlight Sacramento's $320 million redevelopment of Mirasol Village...

Send us Fan Mail Inaugural Episode with host Jeff Patterson discussing Washington updates with CLPHA ED Sunia Zaterman, then talking with NYCHA's Greg Russ about the Blueprint for Change. Thanks for listening to To The Point , a podcast of the Council of Large Public Housing Authorities.