Jennifer Schwartz is the Director of Tax and Housing Advocacy at the National Council of State Housing Agencies (NCSHA), where she manages NCSHA’s policy and legislative advocacy work with specific focus on the Low Income Housing Tax Credit and tax-exempt private activity Housing Bonds. On behalf of NCSHA, Jennifer co-chairs the Steering Committee of the A Call To Invest in Our Neighborhoods (ACTION) Campaign and heads the ACTION Legislative Subcommittee.  She also leads NCSHA’s work on the Emergency Rental Assistance program and oversees other NCSHA housing policy priorities, including HUD funding and programmatic issues.  She rejoined NCSHA in 2014 after previously holding the role of Senior Legislative and Policy Associate at the organization from 2001-2005. 

Prior to returning to NCSHA, Jennifer was the Director of Policy and Programs for the Southern Governors’ Association, where she focused on facilitating bipartisan collaboration on policy areas including economic development, healthcare, trade, workforce development, and energy/environment. Earlier in her career, she worked as a counselor and case manager at Women’s Protective Services, a domestic violence shelter and rape crisis hotline and counseling center in Massachusetts, and as a project consultant for the Massachusetts Advocacy Center (now Massachusetts Advocates for Children), a Boston-based nonprofit children’s advocacy organization.

Jennifer earned a Master of Science degree in Public Administration and Public Policy from the London School of Economics and Political Science and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Brandeis University with a double major in Psychology and Sociology, graduating magna cum laude with Phi Beta Kappa honors.