Vincent F. O'Donnell

Vincent F. O'Donnell is Vice President of Preservation at the Local Initiatives Support Corporation, a national nonprofit support organization. There he heads a major national initiative to support the preservation of at-risk affordable multifamily housing. Since 2001, this program has provided financing commitments of $75 million to preserve more than 20,000 units of at-risk housing, and established LISC as a national preservation leader.

Prior to joining LISC, Mr. O’Donnell was Director of Development at Community Economic Development Assistance Corporation (CEDAC), a quasi-public corporation providing technical assistance to nonprofit housing developers in Massachusetts, where he conducted policy development and research on the preservation of federally assisted multifamily housing and assisted nonprofit organizations to convert HUD subsidized property to nonprofit or cooperative ownership and to produce new affordable housing. Prior to joining CEDAC, Mr. O'Donnell was Executive Director of Homeowner's Rehab, Inc. and Cambridge Neighborhood Apartment Services, Inc., two nonprofit housing development corporations, and he has been actively involved for over thirty years in other programs for the management and redevelopment of HUD assisted housing developments.

Mr. O'Donnell is a founding facilitator of the National Preservation Working Group, which is an affordable housing preservation coalition supported by the National Housing Trust. He serves on the boards of directors of several affordable housing-related organizations, including the Citizen's Housing and Planning Association in Massachusetts, a statewide affordable housing advocacy coalition and the Community Development Trust, a real estate investment trust specializing in affordable housing and community development. Mr. O’Donnell is also on the Advisory Committee of the Newton Community Development .Foundation, an affordable housing development organization in Newton, Massachusetts.