F. Barton Harvey III, Chairman
Enterprise

Bart Harvey is Chairman of the Board for Enterprise Community Partners as well as Enterprise Community Investment and Enterprise Community Loan Fund. He took over leadership in 1993 from co-founder James W. Rouse after close to 10 years of working together to further the organization’s mission of providing decent, affordable housing and a path out of poverty for low-income families.

During Harvey’s tenure, Enterprise has grown into a leading provider of development capital and expertise to create decent, affordable homes and rebuild communities. Enterprise has raised and invested $7 billion in equity, grants and loans and is currently investing in communities at a rate of $1 billion a year.

Before joining Rouse at Enterprise in 1984, Harvey served in various domestic and international positions for the investment bank Dean Witter Reynolds, leaving as managing director of corporate finance.

Rouse and Harvey are credited with working with Congress to help create the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit, which, after 20 years of bi-partisan support, provides the financing for the vast majority of affordable rental homes in this country. Enterprise continues to shape ways to ensure better outcomes for low-income families such as by bringing leaders from the environmental and community development fields together to create the Green Communities™ Initiative in 2004. This $555 million initiative is well ahead of its five-year goal of building more than 8,500 affordable homes that promote health, conserve energy and natural resources, and promote easy access to jobs, schools and services.

In addition to his leadership at Enterprise, Harvey assisted Rouse with the work of the National Housing Task Force and was appointed to the Mitchell-Danforth Task Force on the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit, both in 1988. He was appointed by Congress to the Millennial Housing Commission in 2002 and has served on a number of housing related boards including The Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta. Harvey is also a member of the Freddie Mac Affordable Housing Advisory Council. His civic activities have included board service on the Keswick Multi-Care Center Foundation, the Baltimore Educational Trust, Bright Horizons Family Solutions, Center Stage, Shepherd’s Clinic and the Harvard Alumni Association.

Harvey has testified before Congress on a number of community development issues and has had articles published in many journals and periodicals. He received his MBA and bachelor’s degrees from Harvard University in 1974 and 1971, respectively.