The LOEB Fellowship

In 2018 Janelle Chan was appointed by Governor Baker as undersecretary of the Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community Development.

She spent 2 years as chief of real estate at the Massahusetts Bay Transit Authority, and prior to her Loeb year, she was director of the Asian Community Development Corporation. In that role she faced off against displacement of the ethnically and culturally cohesive working class immigrant community in Boston’s historic Chinatown, while working to foster a thriving and connected regional community. She successfully used a three part strategy of increasing affordable housing, ensuring community engagement in planning processes and creating public-private partnerships.