Howard Cohen
Howard Cohen’s career has been spent in advocacy for the creation and preservation of affordable housing communities.
He is the founder and board chair of Beacon Communities LLC, with a portfolio of some 18,000 apartments for predominately low and moderate income families in New England, New York, Virginia, and Pennsylvania and investments in other affordable housing companies. Cohen was a legal services attorney, general counsel to the Cambridge Housing Authority and Massachusetts Housing Finance Agency, and special counsel to the receiver of the Boston Housing Authority. He spent fifteen years as a partner at Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Glovsky, and Popeo. He is the cofounder of both New Lease for Homeless Families, an industry and publicly supported organization with a mission of moving homeless families into affordable housing developments, and the Council of Larger Affordable Housing Organizations, providing “best business practices” for affordable housing companies in other parts of the country.