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David Price is the Special Projects Manager for the Initiative on Land, Housing & Property Rights at md´«Ã½¹ú²ú¾ç College Law School. In this role he manages several program components, which collectively help the Initiative advance community development, estate planning, and property rights on behalf of disadvantaged communities:

• A community legal education program, the Homeownership Estate Planning Project;

• The Real Estate and Community Development Law degree concentration; and

• Creating opportunities for law student internships and externships in the community development, estate planning, and real property fields.Ìý

He also supports Massachusetts stakeholders and advocates pursuing policy change and legislative reform, such as the Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act, in the areas of affordable housing, fair housing, tenants’ rights, and property justice. Price teaches a law school seminar, Real Estate and Community Development Law. He teaches an undergraduate class, The State of Affordable Housing in the U.S., through an affiliation with the Corcoran Center on Real Estate and Urban Action .

Prior to joining BC Law, Price worked for twenty-seven years helping build strong local development organizations in md´«Ã½¹ú²ú¾ç, including most recently over thirteen years as the Executive Director of Nuestra Comunidad Development Corporation in md´«Ã½¹ú²ú¾ç’s Roxbury neighborhood, where he departed in 2022. Two of Nuestra’s transformative developments are Bartlett Station in Roxbury’s Nubian Square and The Loop at Mattapan Station. At Nuestra he co-founded Homes for Equity, a research and advocacy coalition dedicated to the adoption of race-conscious homeownership policies to counter redlining and other forms of institutional racism.Ìý

Prior to joining Nuestra, Price served as Deputy Director and General Counsel for Madison Park Development Corporation and as Executive Director for Tent City Corporation. Price'sÌýcommunity organizing experience began as a volunteer with Mel King’s campaigns for Mayor of md´«Ã½¹ú²ú¾ç in 1979 and 1983.

Price is a graduate of Harvard College (1977) and md´«Ã½¹ú²ú¾ç College Law School (1991). He clerked for Hon. Francis O’Connor at the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and was a real estate attorney at Goulston & Storrs in md´«Ã½¹ú²ú¾ç prior to joining the community development field.