Paul C. Brophy is a principal with Brophy & Reilly LLC, a Maryland-based consulting firm specializing in housing, community development, and the management of complex urban redevelopment projects. Mr. Brophy has been involved with housing, economic development, and neighborhood improvement in the United States since 1970 as a practitioner, an author, and a professor. His clients have included Johns Hopkins Medicine, Bank of America, the Goldseker Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, the University of Chicago, HUD, for-profit and nonprofit businesses, and major financial institutions.

From 1988-1993, Mr. Brophy was president and then vice chair of The Enterprise Foundation. While in these executive positions, Mr. Brophy worked with community groups and local governments around the nation to develop thousands of units of housing for low and moderate-income families, and to improve neighborhoods.

From 1977-1986, Mr. Brophy held positions in the City of Pittsburgh government, first as Director of the Housing Department and then as Executive Director of the Urban Redevelopment Authority where he was responsible for downtown and neighborhood renewal and economic development.

Mr. Brophy’s practice centers on the creation and implementation of strategies to improve the health of central cities. In 1997 Mr. Brophy directed a project for the American Assembly that resulted in a widely read report, Community Capitalism: Rediscovering the Markets of America’s Urban Neighborhoods.

Mr. Brophy has held adjunct teaching positions at the School of Urban and Public Affairs, Carnegie Mellon University, the Graduate School of Public, International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh, and at the School of Public Affairs, the University of Maryland.

Mr. Brophy has co-authored three books, A Guide to Careers in Community Development, (2000), Housing and Local Government (1982) and Neighborhood Revitalization: Theory and Practice (1975), as well as numerous articles in professional journals.

Mr. Brophy holds a Bachelor of Arts from LaSalle University and a Masters in City Planning from the University of Pennsylvania.