Carrol Vaughan is Interim President & Chief Executive Officer of the San Diego Housing Commission, a public agency working to expand affordable housing opportunities in the City of San Diego. Each year, the Housing Commission helps more than 80,000 lower income individuals with affordable housing through award-winning programs that benefit the city’s economy and revitalize neighborhoods. The San Diego City Council, acting as the Housing Authority, appointed Ms. Vaughan to the position in January 2008 upon the retirement of Elizabeth C. Morris.

Since 1999, Ms. Vaughan has served as Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer, responsible for all aspects of agency operations, including affordable housing programs, facilities management, property/asset management, human resources, financial services, budgeting, organizational development and training, labor relations, purchasing, equal opportunity contracting, and information technology.

Ms. Vaughan has created and implemented a range of innovative strategies that have earned the agency its reputation as one of the nation’s best-managed public housing authorities. Her accomplishments include: maximizing the efficiency of agency operations through continual process re-engineering; developing a strategic business plan that encompasses a private-sector approach; and holding the agency’s administrative costs to only seven percent.

Most recently, Ms. Vaughan was instrumental in crafting a groundbreaking proposal to remove the agency’s apartments from the underfunded public housing federal program, which will allow the agency to protect its residents and leverage its real estate assets to build additional housing. In addition, she carried out the relocation of the agency to an environmentally friendly, transit-oriented office building in downtown San Diego.

Ms. Vaughan has 32 years of experience in the affordable housing arena in San Diego and beyond. She has worked for the Housing Commission since 1989 (excluding a three year hiatus, when she served as vice president of a training/consultation firm specializing in housing authorities). From 1989 to 1996, she held consecutive positions as deputy executive director for two Housing Commission divisions (Operations and Housing Services). Her professional history also includes serving as executive director for two public housing authorities (in Statesville, North Carolina; and Ashland, Kentucky).

Ms. Vaughan holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the State University of New York. She has been included in Who’s Who in Finance & Industry, received a TWIN Award (Tribute to Women and Industry) from the YWCA, and the San Diego Business Journal’s Women Who Mean Business. Ms. Vaughan is an active member of the National Association of Housing & Redevelopment Officials (NAHRO) and serves as the president of NAHRO’s Southern California division.  
 

Last updated January 15, 2008