Mr. Stephen Norman

Stephen Norman is the Executive Director of the King County Housing Authority (KCHA), which serves all of King County outside of the cities of Seattle and Renton.  The Authority owns over 9,000 units of housing and provides financial assistance to an additional 10,000 households renting from private landlords. The Housing Authority is an active housing developer, with a pipeline that includes the redevelopment of 130 acres of housing in the core of one of the region’s poorest communities.

KCHA works closely with local governments, public and behavioral health care systems and community stakeholders to house the region’s homeless population; provide safe and affordable housing for low income elderly and disabled households; and promote family self-sufficiency and life success for the 20,000 children assisted through its programs.

Mr. Norman has an extensive background in community organizing, urban planning and affordable housing design, development and management. He served as an Assistant Housing Commissioner for New York City during the Koch and Dinkins administrations and subsequently helped create the Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH) as its original vice-president. He holds a Master’s Degree in public administration and served as a Loeb Fellow at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. He is currently president of the Council of Large Public Housing Authorities and Chair of the Board of CSH. Mr. Norman served as co-chair of King County’s Inter-agency Council on Homelessness from 2005 to 2014, as a Board Member of Building Changes (formerly AIDS Housing of Washington) for over a decade, and as a member of the Advisory Board for the Washington Families Fund.