Eugene E. Jones Jr.
Atlanta Housing Commission
Eugene E. Jones, Jr. is a public housing policy change agent with over 35 years of executive leadership experience in advocating for affordable housing in major cities across the United States and even Toronto, Canada in management, public/private partnerships, operations, finance, and governance in the public housing industry. Eugene E. Jones, Jr. the author of the book, HOUSING HUMANS. His vision is to build communities where people can live with dignity in partnership with both private and public sectors.
CEO Positions have included Housing Authorities in eight major cities in North America and one internationally, in Canada. Eugene served a four-and-a-half-year stint as CEO of the Chicago Housing Authority with major accomplishments. Former Mayor Rahm Emmanuel in a speech at the City Club of Chicago said of Jones, “The real measure of what Gene, the Board and his team have done in Chicago is that under his stewardship, public housing was reconfigured from building housing to building a community.”
CEO Positions have included Housing Authorities in eight major cities in North America and one internationally, in Canada. Eugene served a four-and-a-half-year stint as CEO of the Chicago Housing Authority with major accomplishments. Former Mayor Rahm Emmanuel in a speech at the City Club of Chicago said of Jones, “The real measure of what Gene, the Board and his team have done in Chicago is that under his stewardship, public housing was reconfigured from building housing to building a community.”