Stockton Williams

Stockton Williams is Executive Vice President of Content for ULI and Executive Director of the ULI Terwilliger Center for Housing. Mr. Williams has executive management responsibility for ULI’s member-driven program of research and analysis on housing and communities, real estate finance and investment, urban sustainability, development practice, and shaping cities and regions. He is most recently the co-author of the ULI publications The Economics of Inclusionary Development and Housing in the Evolving American Suburb. He is a frequent commentator on housing issues in the media and an advisor to local communities across the U.S. Before joining ULI in January 2015, Mr. Williams was Managing Principal of the Washington, D.C. office of HR&A Advisors. He also served as Senior Advisor in two Federal Cabinet agencies: the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the U.S. Department of Energy. He also been Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer at Enterprise Community Partners; a Senior Advisor at Living Cities; a Senior Legislative and Policy Associate at the National Council of State Housing Agencies; and a developer of affordable housing. Mr. Williams is Chairman of the Board of Groundswell, a community solar organization serving low-income communities. He holds an M.S. from Columbia University and a B.A. from Princeton University.

While the $1.5 trillion tax-cut bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives is widely seen as beneficial for commercial real estate, one provision would eliminate a municipal financing tool that has been essential for housing, infrastructure, and industrial development investment for decades.
The low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC) has helped house millions, and it remains a vital driver of development. The 30-year track record of the LIHTC offers compelling evidence that affordable housing is good business, a stable asset class, and a strong driver of economic activity and neighborhood improvement.
Newly released data and analysis from several sources illustrate a major obstacle to a fully healthy housing market in the United States: the nation is not building nearly enough new residential units.
A resurgence of office-to-residential conversions is happening in markets around the world. What conditions are necessary to make it work?
The summer of 2015 saw the most significant legal and regulatory developments to break down residential segregation since the days immediately after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968—with potentially profound impacts for communities across the United States.
More than 30 of the nation’s leading multifamily developers, owners, and capital providers gathered in May to discuss issues facing the industry at the 2nd annual ULI/Carolyn and Preston Butcher Forum on Multifamily Housing in Houston, Texas, with four key themes emerging.
The big housing news of 2015 so far has been the Obama administration’s announcement that the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) will reduce the annual premiums new borrowers pay for FHA-insured home mortgage loans by 50 basis points—a half percentage point. But what impact will that have on affordability?
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