The LOEB Fellowship

James Stockard, an expert in affordable housing and community development, retired in 2014 from the role of curator of the Loeb Fellowship, which he held for 17 years.

As a principal for over 25 years with the Cambridge-based consulting firm Stockard & Engler & Brigham, he has worked with nonprofit groups and public agencies across the country on affordable housing development, property management, neighborhood revitalization, and housing policy. Shortly before coming to the GSD, he served as the court-appointed special master for the Department of Public and Assisted Housing in Washington, DC.

Mr. Stockard has taught courses on housing policy at MIT’s School of Architecture, Tufts University and the GSD, where he continue to teach. He is the co-author of Managing Affordable Housing, and wrote the epilogue in New Directions in Uban Public Housing. He was the principal investigator for the Public Housing Operating Cost Study commissioned by the US Congress. Stockard served as a commissioner of the Cambridge Housing Authority for 40 years (including 8 terms as chair), and is a founding trustee of the Cambridge Affordable Housing Trust Fund. He is a past president of the Citizens Housing and Planning Association, Massachusetts’ largest research and advocacy group for housing and community development issues.  He was a Fulbright Senior Scholar at the Glasgow School of Art in Scotland in 2016.

Stockard is an alumnus of the Loeb Fellowship Program and also earned a Master of City Planning degree from the GSD.