Shamus Roller

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Shamus Roller is the executive director of the National Housing Law Project. He is formerly the executive director of Housing California.
A San Francisco, California, building that was privatized through the RAD program.
Housing

The Promise and Peril of HUD’s RAD Program

After a public housing property in Hopewell, Virginia, was privatized through the Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD) program, some families were threatened with eviction and calls to Child Protective Services when […]

Shamus Roller is the executive director of the National Housing Law Project. He is formerly the executive director of Housing California.
Community Development Field

Community Development and Ending Homelessness

The discussion of homelessness is dominated by stories of personal mistakes, bad luck, and mental illness. In contrast to this narrative, we know that roughly 10 percent of all people […]