Professional Affiliation

Executive Director, ULI Terwilliger Center for Housing

Expert Bio

Stockton Williams is Executive Director of the ULI Terwilliger Center for Housing. The Center conducts research, performs analysis, provides expert advice, and develops best practice recommendations that reflect the residential land use and development priorities of ULI’s 39,000 global members in all residential product types, including workforce, seniors, and market-rate housing. Mr. Williams is a frequent speaker at housing industry events and commentator on housing issues in the media. He is most recently the author of the ULI publications Preserving Multifamily Workforce and Affordable Housing: New Approaches for Investing in a Vital National Asset and co-author of Housing in the Evolving American Suburb and The Economics of Inclusionary Development. Before joining ULI in January 2015, Mr. Williams was Managing Principal of the Washington, D.C., office of HR&A Advisors, which advises cities across the U.S. on complex real estate and economic development projects. Prior to joining HR&A, Mr. Williams served as Senior Advisor in two Federal Cabinet agencies: the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the U.S. Department of Energy. He has also been Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer at Enterprise Community Partners; a Senior Advisor at Living Cities; a Senior Legislative and Policy Associate at the National Council of State Housing Agencies; and a developer of affordable housing. He is Chairman of the Board of Groundswell, a clean energy innovator in harnessing community economic power for the common good. He holds an M.S. from Columbia University and a B.A. from Princeton University.