Allison Ladd leads Mayor Baraka’s equitable growth housing and development strategy which has won national acclaim for harnessing billions in new investment to create opportunity for Newark residents and businesses.

She previously served as Deputy Director of Washington, DC Housing and Community Development. In Newark, she created new tools to expand affordable housing and homeownership, prevent evictions, transform abandoned properties into neighborhood assets, and create mixed income housing through inclusionary zoning. She is the Chair of Invest Newark, the city’s economic development corporation, which operates Newark’s landbank and works to bring America’s fastest broadband to residents and businesses.

During the pandemic, Ms. Ladd implemented emergency programs that enabled the survival of Newark’s struggling residents and small businesses.