Team
Robert C. Stroh, Director
Dr. Robert C. Stroh is director of the Shimberg Center for Affordable Housing. His area of specialty is in residential construction technology. Dr. Stroh maintains affiliation with the National Consortium of Housing Research and with the International Council for Building Research Studies and Documentation in order to provide the Center access to current knowledge nation wide and world wide.
Education: BS Forestry, 1959; MS Forestry and Statistics, 1961; Ph.D. Genetics and Statistics, 1964, Pennsylvania State University.
Special fields: Affordable Housing Delivery; Experimental Design and Statistical Methods; Wood Products; Windstorm Resistant Housing.
Employers: Director Information Technology Division of NAHB, National Research Center, Upper Marlboro MD; Adjunct Professor, Management Sciences Department, Montgomery College, MD; Vice President for Energy and Environment, Applied Urbanetics, Inc., Washington D.C.; Computer Services Marketing Manager for Vitro Laboratories, Inc., Silver Springs, MD.
Member: American Institute of Constructors (Affiliate); National Association of Home Builders; Sigma Lambda Chi; Society of the Sigma Xi; Alpha Gamma Rho Fraternity.
Anne Williamson, Associate Director
Dr. Anne Williamson is Associate Director of the Shimberg Center for Affordable Housing. Her research agenda is designed to provide results that support the efforts of federal, state and local policy makers, program administrators, advocates, and individual citizens to address the complex challenges associated with creation of affordable housing opportunities and community revitalization.
Prior to joining the Shimberg Center, Ms. Williamson served as management within government, corporate, and academic organizations associated with housing and community development efforts.
Education: Ph.D. in Public Administration and Policy, University of Georgia, 2007; M.A. Finance, University of Flordia, 1987; B.B.A. Finance, Middle Tennessee State University, 1984.
Special fields: Housing Policy; Public-Private Partnerships in Development; Housing and Community Revitalization; Homeownership and Foreclosure Prevention; Affordable Housing Programs, including HOPE VI, the Low Income Housing Tax Credit and other federal, state and local government affordable housing initiatives.
Publications: Numerous conference papers and reports on housing policy and program issues in affordable housing, including a focus on public-private partnerships in the Low Income Housing Tax Credit program and revitalization through HOPE VI and other programs.
Employers: Georgia Department of Community Affairs, Potemkin-Magita Development, Inc., Real Estate Research Center (University of Florida), Carl Vinson Institute of Government (University of Georgia).
Member: American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association, Association of Public Policy and Management, Urban Affairs Association.
William O'Dell, Associate Director
Bill O'Dell is manager of the Florida Housing Data Clearinghouse at the Shimberg Center. Mr. O'Dell has spent several years at the Shimberg Center collaborating on the development of a number of data products, among them the Affordable Housing Needs Assessment. Before coming to the Shimberg Center, Mr. O'Dell was a policy analyst at the University of Florida's Bureau of Economic and Business Research where he was involved in several research projects concerning Florida's Growth Management Act. He has been involved in local and state government issues in Florida for several years. His local government experience includes capital improvement planning, housing and impact fees. In 1996, Mr. O'Dell earned his Masters degree in Political Science from the University of Florida, with a Certificate in Public Administration.
Linda J. Stanley, Office Manager
Linda Stanley has been with the Shimberg Center for over ten years and currently serves as the Center's Office Manager. She is responsible for all administrative processes that allow the Center to function within the University of Florida environment: personnel, purchasing, payroll, property inventory, and job cost accounting. Her nearly fifteen years of accumulated knowledge of the administrative processes at the University make her a valuable asset to the Center's team.
Aneurin (Nye) Grant, Research Analyst
Nye is a Research Analyst with the Shimberg Center for Affordable Housing's Housing Policy Group. He has held positions with land development, urban planning, transportation, and environmental agencies. Currently, he is pursuing a Ph.D.in Building Construction at the University of Florida, where he is focusing on green building practices and techniques, energy efficient construction, performance measurement, and green building evaluation systems.
Jim Martinez, Programmer
Jim Martinez is a Programmer for the Shimberg Center for Affordable Housing. His technical duties include software engineering, developing web applications, system administration, database administration and maintenance, and on occasion vacuuming. In his free time Mr. Martinez, who has earned both a Masters and a Bachelors degree in Mathematics, enjoys playing ultimate frisbee, playing guitar, reading, and salads. He is blessed with one wife and two sons.
Diep Nguyen, Computer Coordinator
Ms. Diep Nguyen works as a Computer Coordinator at the Shimberg Center for Affordable Housing. Her duties include design and management of the center's database, developing the center's website and its applications. She also takes part in researching and developing housing data.
Ms. Nguyen earned her Master degree in Translation and Interpretation and an ABD in Linguistics from Moscow State Linguistics University and a Master degree in Computer Science from University of Florida.
Ignacio Paz Posse, Web Developer
Ignacio Paz Posse is a Web Developer for the Shimberg Center for Affordable Housing. He has a background in photography and graphic design as well as experience in building database driven websites. He joined our team in October 2006 and helps us to redesign and optimize our web applications.
Patricia Roset-Zuppa, Research and Policy Analyst
Patricia Roset-Zuppa is a Research and Policy Analyst with the Shimberg Center for Affordable Housing. Her focus is on data collection and research of housing markets and policies. She brings to her role ten years of experience in research on urban planning issues and analysis of development feasibility in the private and non-profit sector. Ms. Roset-Zuppa holds a Masters degree in Geography with a major in Urban Planning from Utrecht University in the Netherlands, and a Master of Business Administration with a major in Real Property Development from York University in Toronto. She is currently enrolled in the Ph.D. program of the College of Design, Construction and Planning at the University of Florida.
Marta Strambi-Kramer, GIS Analyst
Marta Strambi-Kramer is a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Analyst with the Shimberg Center for Affordable Housing's Housing Policy Group. Trained and certified as an Architect in Brazil, she also holds a professional graduate degree in GIS from the Federal University of Paraná in Brazil. Ms. Strambi-Kramer is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Florida. Her research focuses on assisted rental housing and deconcentration of poverty.
Dino Zuppa, Project Manager
Dino Zuppa is a Project Manager with the Shimberg Center for Affordable Housing's Housing Policy Group. Mr. Zuppa comes to the Center from Canada where he has held leadership positions in residential construction, local government and strategic consulting. He is currently working towards a Ph.D. in Building Construction at the University of Florida focusing on affordable housing, residential construction, construction management and leadership development.
Anne Ray, Affiliate Researcher
Anne Ray is an affiliated researcher with the Shimberg Center for Affordable Housing, where she assisted in the development of the Florida Housing Data Clearinghouse Web site and has performed research on preservation of assisted rental housing, public housing, the housing needs of persons with disabilities, farmworker housing, and states' implementation of the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit. She also serves as a research and business planning consultant to Hart-Shegos and Associates of St. Paul, Minnesota, a private consulting firm that assists family supportive housing providers with housing development and preservation, asset management, and service planning. Previously, she worked for the Family Housing Fund in Minneapolis, directing a public education campaign on affordable housing needs in the Twin Cities metropolitan area. Ms. Ray received a Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of Michigan and a Masters degree in Urban Planning and Policy from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Kristin Larsen, Affiliate Faculty
Dr. Kristin Larsen, AICP (American Institute of Certified Planners) received a BA in Business Administration from the University of Florida in 1986, a Master's Degree in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Florida in 1990, and a Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning from Cornell University in 2001. While at Cornell she specialized in Architectural History, Planning History, and City and Regional Planning. Currently Dr. Larsen is an Assistant Professor at the University of Florida in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning with affiliate faculty status with the Rinker School of Building Construction - Shimberg Center for Affordable Housing. She is also the Graduate Coordinator for the Department of Urban and Regional Planning.
Her areas of specialization include housing policy, neighborhood planning, urban and planning history, and historic preservation. Currently Dr. Larsen is conducting a study of Florida's housing trust fund and other state housing trust funds across the country, examining the influential Depression-era architect Henry Wright's little-known work in regionalism, and writing a biography of nationally and internationally recognized community architect Clarence Stein. She is also an appointed member of the Governor's Affordable Housing Study Commission, which this year is assessing Florida's housing trust fund.
