Executive Director

Anne Star Mavity has served as MHP’s Executive Director since 2017. She brings decades of experience in affordable housing, capacity building, and community development. Throughout her career, she has helped communities and organizations formulate policy solutions to some of the most complex housing and community development challenges. Prior to MHP, Anne has worked in housing as a neighborhood organizer, in the U.S. Congress on the Housing Subcommittee, doing lending and deals with Corporation for Supportive Housing, and led housing development and organizing at Beacon Interfaith Housing Collaborative. She served for 11 years as a City Council member in St. Louis Park, and during that time also served as Chair of Metro Cities and on the board of the League of Minnesota Cities. Anne lived and worked in Moscow, Russia for four years in the 1990s as the Soviet Union collapsed and democratic elections were held in Russia, training activists to participate and steering USAID efforts to support that transition (alas, it did not stick).

Anne has a double BA degree in Government and Slavic Languages from Lawrence University, and a master’s in public policy from Georgetown University. She serves on the National Low Income Housing Coalition’s Board of Directors.

anne.mavity [at] mhponline.org