WASHINGTON, DC - The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) on Saturday inducted J. Ronald Terwilliger into the National Housing Hall of Fame. For more than two decades Terwilliger has served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Trammell Crow Residential, the nation's largest multifamily housing developer. His vision and commitment to excellence have created a multi-billion dollar company that has a presence in most major American markets and is at the forefront of the nation's multifamily housing industry.
"Ronald Terwilliger is a national leader in the effort to address the housing affordability crisis faced by America's working families," said 2008 NAHB President Sandy Dunn, a home builder in Point Pleasant, W.Va. "Ron is highly respected by his peers in the housing industry because of his leadership in business and philanthropy." The National Housing Center Board of Governors selects those named to the Hall of Fame.
An honor graduate of the United States Naval Academy who served five years in the Navy, Terwilliger went on to receive an MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of Business where he was elected a Baker Scholar. He is Chairman Emeritus of the Wharton Real Estate Center. Terwilliger is also a past Chairman of the Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership and is the current Chairman of the Board of Habitat for Humanity International. He is the immediate past Chairman of the National Association of Home Builders Multifamily Leadership Board.
Terwilliger has been very involved in civic and philanthropic efforts in Atlanta, where Trammell Crow Residential has its headquarters. In his early years at the company, Terwilliger worked on affordable housing options, and he continues to work closely on the issue with Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin. He served as the Chair of the Mayor's Task Force for Affordable Workforce Housing. Through his work on affordable housing Terwilliger has become a champion of the role that for-profit developers can play in providing workforce housing.
From 1999 to 2001 Terwilliger served as chairman of the Urban Land Institute (ULI) where he continues to serve on the Governance Committee. In February of 2007, Terwilliger made the single largest financial contribution to the Urban Land Institute in its 72-year history to combat the nation's fastest growing and most pervasive housing challenge— the lack of affordable housing. His generous grant established The ULI J. Ronald Terwilliger Center for Workforce Housing. Its mission is to measurably increase the production of workforce housing that is economically viable, sustainable for future generations, and close to jobs.
The Terwilliger Center has set an ambitious goal of producing 3,500 new units of workforce housing by 2012 in three pilot markets, Atlanta, Southeast Florida, and Washington, D.C. The Center's ultimate goal is to facilitate a measurable increase in the number of mixed-income workforce housing units in communities across the nation.
Terwilliger also contributed a significant sum to Enterprise Community Partners as "start-up capital" for the Maryland Workforce Housing Fund and additional capital for the Atlanta Assemblage Land Fund. Terwilliger has also made significant financial contributions to Habitat for Humanity. He has served on the Board for seven years, lending his housing finance and construction expertise to further advance the mission of this well-known grassroots housing movement. Terwilliger is also a Director of the Naval Academy Foundation and is a Subcommittee Chairman of the Naval Academy Athletic Committee.
Source: NAHB.org