Virginia Green Named New HDDC President

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Affordable Housing Leader Elects Top Executive

The Board of Atlanta’s Historic District Development Corporation (HDDC) is proud to announce it has elected Virginia Green as the revitalization organization’s new President.  Green has been HDDC’s Vice President of Finance and CFO since 1997 and served as the Interim President since March 2002. The vivacious and visionary North Carolina A&T University summa cum laude graduate is only the second president in the esteemed organization’s 22-year history.

Green, a certified public accountant and financial consultant, replaces HDDC founder and outgoing president Mtamanika Youngblood, a nationally known leader in the affordable housing industry.

“We are delighted that we are able to promote from within,” said Youngblood, the Chair of HDDC’s Board of Directors.  “It is a very important issue for non-profit groups, to be able to provide for continuity of leadership.  Virginia has done an outstanding job over the last year [as interim president], and we believe that she brings a certain kind of financial rigor to our organization at a time when that is very much needed.  We expect that her exemplary financial and executive management skills are what will take us into the future.”

HDDC has become Atlanta’s quintessential community development corporation because of its success in revitalizing, restoring and rebuilding the mixed-income, diverse community in and surrounding the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic District.  A once blighted Old Fourth Ward community has now been reborn.  But Green admits there is much more meaningful work for HDDC to accomplish.

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“I welcome the challenge and look forward to further carrying out the mission of the organization to restore the area to the proud, economically diverse and viable community that once existed, while preventing displacement of existing residents and maintaining its historic character.” Green takes over the reins of the presidency immediately and looks forward to the role HDDC will serve in the community.

The Historic District Development Corporation (HDDC) is a non-profit, community-based organization with a mission to revitalize, restore and rebuild the mixed-income, diverse community in and around the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic District.  Chartered in 1980, our approach emphasizes historic preservation, non-displacement, and economic sustainability. Current operational support funders are Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership, The Enterprise Foundation, Freddie Mac, Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation and United Way of Metropolitan Atlanta. For more information visit our website: www.hddc.net.

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