Celebrate

Regional Housing Leaders Awards

Cocktail Reception

May 30, 2024 | 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM | National Landing Experience Center

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Susan Dewey

Regional Housing Impact Leader Award

Susan F. Dewey served as the Chief Executive Officer of Virginia Housing ​for almost 25 years, since the Board of Commissioners of Virginia ​Housing appointed her, effective June 15, 1999, until she retired on ​December 31, 2023. Prior to this, Susan served for three years as a ​Virginia Housing Commissioner.


As the Chief Executive Officer of Virginia Housing, Susan directed all ​operations of Virginia Housing, a multibillion-dollar, self-supporting ​public-private partnership that is responsible for addressing the ​statewide housing affordability needs of low and moderate-income ​Virginians. Virginia Housing provides a variety of rental and ​homeownership lending and grant programs, and free homeownership ​education. Virginia Housing also administers the federal Low Income ​Housing Tax Credit Program and a statewide Housing Choice

Voucher Program.

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Amazon Housing ​Equity Fund

William L. Berry Sustainable Communities Award

Amazon’s Housing Equity Fund is a more than $2 billion commitment to ​help preserve and create affordable, inclusive housing developments ​through low-rate loans and grants to housing partners, traditional and ​non-traditional public agencies, and minority-led organizations.


The more than $2 billion Amazon Housing Equity Fund was established ​with the company’s belief that all people should have access to a home ​they can afford. While only the government can solve the affordability ​shortage, private industry has a role to play. The Fund was created with ​the goal of growing and protecting the stock of housing for low- to ​moderate-income families in Washington state’s Puget Sound region; ​Arlington, Virginia-Washington D.C. region; and the Nashville, Tennessee ​region.

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Loudoun Workforce ​Housing Now Campaign

Regional Housing Impact Leader Award

Workforce Housing Now is a public awareness campaign amplifying ​Loudoun’s voice for workforce housing as the missing ingredient to our ​community’s prosperity.


Workforce Housing Now is a program of the Community Foundation for ​Loudoun and Northern Fauquier Counties. The campaign began with a ​group of concerned leaders from our community who agreed that to ​work in Loudoun should also enable someone to live in Loudoun—​because housing is foundational.

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Seth Opoku-Yeboah

Rising Housing Leaders Award

Seth is a Development Manager at Wellington Development Partners. He ​is responsible for all aspects of the development cycle for Wellington's ​affordable housing development opportunities throughout Virginia, ​Maryland, and DC. Prior to joining Wellington, he worked at the E&G ​Group, an affordable housing developer, alongside Wellington's ​principal, Jim Edmondson.


Seth earned his undergraduate degree at the College of William and ​Mary, where he had the honor of serving as the student commencement ​speaker.