Ms Gray is an analyst for the Division of Affordable Housing Research and Technology Division in the Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R) at the U.S Department of Housing and Urban Development. Since joining HUD in 2000, Regina’s research activities have focused on sustainable development, urban design and land use planning, transit oriented development, energy and green building practices, and affordable housing preservation. Her work in these areas is closely aligned with the Obama Administration’s sustainability goals. Beyond her work at HUD, Regina collaborates with other federal agencies on a host of sustainability initiatives, and is actively involved in these interagency efforts. She is the PD&R lead in supporting HUD’s new Office of Sustainable Housing and Communities (OSHC) strategic planning efforts, integrating the goals and programs of partner federal agencies and stakeholder organizations. She is the program coordinator for PD&R’s research agenda on Sustainable Development and is currently managing HUD’s Sustainable Communities Research Grant Program. With the Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administration (FTA), Regina is the co-chair of the FTA-HUD Working Group for affordable housing and transit. In addition, Regina is member of the HUD’s partnership with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on the HHS-HUD Partnership subgroup for Sustainable Housing and Healthy Communities, where she is working with the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to help develop a health assessment impact tool. Most recently, she has collaborated with HUD’s Office of Healthy Homes and Lead Control (OHHLC) and OSHC on the White House Interagency Task Force report addressing childhood obesity. Regina earned a Bachelors of Arts in Political Science from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia; a Masters of Arts from the George Washington University in Washington, D.C. in Political Science and Public Policy; and a doctorate from the University of Maryland, College Park in Political Science and Policy Studies. In her off time, she enjoys running, biking, reading, music, and volunteering for various social and political causes.

Mr. Metcalf is a Senior Advisor to the acting FHA Commissioner and Assistant Secretary for Housing at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. He focuses on policy development for multifamily housing programs including Choice Neighborhoods, an initiative to transform distressed neighborhoods with federally assisted housing into viable mixed-income communities, as well as for the reform of the Section 202 Supportive Housing for the Elderly Program and the Section 811 Supportive Housing for Persons with Disabilities Program. He is lead on the Rental Policy Working Group’s alignment initiative, a White House task force with the Departments of the Treasury and Agriculture to better coordinate federal rental policy. Prior to joining HUD, Mr. Metcalf worked at BRIDGE Housing Corporation where he managed the development of mixed-use and mixed-income residential communities in the San Francisco Bay Area, including a residential community for extremely low-income seniors with chronic health concerns. Mr. Metcalf also previously worked at Common Ground Communities, a supportive housing developer based in New York City.