New Preservation Compact Staff

Rental Housing Alliance

Sam Tuttle joined the Sargent Shriver National Center On Poverty Law as housing staff attorney in July 2007.

She is working primarily on housing preservation issues. Sam received her bachelor's degree from the University of Minnesota in 1999 and her law degree from the University of Michigan in 2002. After clerking in Minnesota, Sam began her legal career at the Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago, where she was a neighborhood attorney at the Southside and Central Intake Offices. While at the Legal Assistance Foundation, Sam practiced in the areas of housing, family and employment law.

Data Clearinghouse

Marc Smith is the director of the Housing Data Clearinghouse and Professor of Finance at DePaul University. 

For the previous two years he was Associate Professor in Human Ecology and the State Housing Specialist in the Extension program at the University of Wisconsin. Prior to his move to Wisconsin, he spent almost 20 years at the University of Florida where he became an Associate Professor and the co-director of the Shimberg Center for Affordable Housing.

Dr. Smith's responsibilities have included provision of technical assistance and training to local governments and nonprofit housing organizations, housing data analysis, policy and market studies for state and local government, community outreach, on-campus teaching, and research. He has been principal investigator on a number of funded research projects including a series of contracts with the Florida Department of Community Affairs and Florida Housing and Finance Corporation to develop and implement an affordable housing needs assessment methodology for local jurisdictions in the state. Other projects have included a Community Outreach Partnership Center funded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, a Fannie Mae Foundation funded university-community partnership, studies of neighborhood indicators and loan delinquency in the portfolios of Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation funded organizations, and an evaluation of a HOPE VI project in Tampa.

Dr. Smith has published over 40 articles and book chapters. His recent research work has focused on affordable housing needs assessment, the impact of local regulations on housing, evaluation of housing programs, homeownership, and capacity of nonprofit housing organizations. He received his Master of City Planning degree from the University of Pennsylvania and his Ph.D. in Real Estate from The Ohio State University.

Energy Savers Program

Peter Ludwig has been hired as the Energy Efficiency Analyst for CNT Energy.

His duties include developing and administering the Cook County Energy Savers multi-family retrofit program. In addition, Peter is studying to become LEED certified in existing buildings and assists CNT Energy with Climate Mitigation initiatives.

Mr. Ludwig graduated from Wesleyan University in 1999 with a B.A. in Earth and Environmental Science. After graduation, Peter conducted and published original research in conjunction with Wesleyan University and the Paleo-magnetic Department of Natural Resources Canada in Ottawa, Ontario. Before joining CNT, Peter worked at JLC Environmental Consulting, Inc., a private firm in New York City for more than 6 years. He has extensive experience in hazardous material building surveys, abatement design & management, hazardous material removal in occupied buildings, indoor air quality, construction safety and industrial hygiene applications. When he left JLC, he was operations manager for the Asbestos Consulting and Management Division.

Having grown up in lower Manhattan in the 1980's, Peter is deeply concerned with affordable housing. In his spare time, Peter plays with the Javanese Gamelan Ensemble in Hyde Park. Peter has also traveled extensively throughout Europe, East Africa, Central America & Patagonia.