IHI Board of Directors
Richard N. Dubin, IHI Board Member, developer of 4,000 for sale and 3,000 rental units for a broad range of
incomes from low income to luxury housing, financed by FHA, Tax free bond issues and conventional lending.
Mr. Dubin has been a developer in the Baltimore Washington area for 30 years and has a major interest in the
development of low and moderate income housing. He is a former member of the Maryland Housing Policy Committee
and numerous housing related organizations.
William H. Hussmann, IHI Board Member, William H. Hussmann, IHI Board Member, retired June 2001 as Chairman of
the National Montgomery County Planning Board. He was first appointed in February 1994.. He served as Chief
Administrative Officer in the Prince George's County and Montgomery County governments as well as Vice President
of the Hallowell Corporation and Kettler Brothers. In the 1960s, he was Director of Planning for the City of
Rockville. Mr. Hussmann received his B.A. degree in Geography in 1960 from the University of Maryland and earned
his Masters in Public Administration degree from the University of Pittsburgh in 1963. Currently he is a member of,
the American Institute of Planners, the International City Managers Associations and an Honorary Member of the
American Institute of Architects. Mr. Hussmann has been active on the Board of Directors of the Washington Metropolitan
Area Transit Authority, the Maryland Commission on Planning and Zoning Law, the Montgomery County Commission of the
Future, and the Board of Directors of the Crossway Community. Mr. Hussmann is currently Executive Director of the Fresno,
California Housing Agency.
Alexander Polikoff, IHI Board Member, has been Executive Director of Business and Professional People for the Public
Interest (BPI), a Chicago public interest law center, since 1970. Prior to that position he was a ember of the Chicago
law firm of Schiff Hardin & Waite. Polikoff is a Director of the Illinois Division of the American Civil Liberties Union,
a former General Counsel of that organization and a former national ACLU Board member. For both BPI and ACLU he has
carried on important litigation in the housing, civil rights and environmental fields, including the successful argument
before the U.S. Supreme Court in the landmark Gautreaux (public housing) litigation.
In 1976, in recognition of his public service work, Polikoff was names an Honorary Fellow of the University of Pennsylvania
Law School. In 1981 he received the Public Good Award for Outstanding Contributions toward improving the quality of Urban
life in Chicago. In 1987 he received the Public Interest Law Internship Award for distinguished public service. He is the
author of a number of articles on civile liberties and urban affairs issues and of a book, Housing the Poor: The Case for Heroism.
David Rusk, IHI Board Member, Urbanologist, the Baltimore Sun says, is the "hottest urban expert in the nation today."
He is the author of Cities Without Suburbs and Baltimore Unbound. Mr. Rusk served as a state legislator in New Mexico and
was mayor of the United State's 36th largest city, Albuquerque, from 1977-81. From 1963-1968, he was a full-time civil
rights and anti-poverty worker with the Washington Urban League. He also has served as legislative and program development
director for the U.S. Department of Labor's Manpower Administration.
Mr. Bernard L. Tetreault, President and Founder of IHI President and Founder of IHI, served as Executive Director of the
Montgomery County Housing Opportunities Commission (H.O.C.) from 1971-1995. In that capacity, he managed and administered
a 300-employee housing agency with a $68 million operating budget and a 24,459-unit housing portfolio of owned, managed
and financed units. At H.O.C., Mr. Tetreault led the evolution of a Public Housing Authority to a comprehensive housing
agency that builds, manages and finances a variety of housing for individuals from very low incomes to market rate.
Mr. Tetreault speaks frequently at housing conferences and training sessions and serves on numerous local and national
Boards of Directors, such as the Washington Area Housing Partnership, the National Housing Conference, and Victory Housing
of the Washington Archdiocese. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Housing Development Reporter. He previously
served as Municipal Administrator in South Brunswick Township, New Jersey, and as Executive Assistant to the City Manager,
Rockville, Maryland. Mr. Tetreault holds a Master in Public Administration from Cornell University, and a BS in civil
engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Through IHI, Mr. Tetreault is acting as advisor to the Louisville
(Kentucky) Housing Authority on a range of issues -- from HOPE VI redevelopment to staff development/strategic planning --
and he is currently serves as a Real Estate Development Advisor to the District of Columbia Housing Authority, working to
transform much of the city's Public Housing stock to a mixed-income portfolio.

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