Beth Sorce

Beth has worked in the affordable housing and homeownership field for more than 18 years. She began her career in New York City with the Urban Homesteading Assistance Board, creating and preserving limited equity cooperatives which provide stable, affordable homeownership opportunities to more than 30,000 low-income households. Beth provided training and technical assistance to tenant associations and housing cooperatives on topics related to cooperative governance, property management, and fair housing. She then moved to New Orleans where she administered a lease purchase program at Providence Community Housing that enabled 18 households displaced out of New Orleans to come home. Beth joined the National Community Land Trust Network (now known as Grounded Solutions Network) in 2013 and was responsible for building capacity for community land trust and shared equity organizations nationwide including in Albany (NY), Houston (TX), Portland (OR), and Omaha (NE). As Senior Director of Housing Stability, Beth oversees all the organization’s philanthropic investments in preventing displacement, building opportunities for homeownership and ending homelessness. Beth holds a Master of Urban and Regional Planning Degree from the University of New Orleans and a bachelor’s degree from Macalester College.