Colin Higgins

Colin Higgins is Executive Director of the National Housing Crisis Task Force. Colin has a track record of impact across federal, state, and local levels of policymaking. He most recently worked at the Massachusetts Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities, where he spearheaded the state’s response to the recent homelessness and immigration crisis, developing and implementing sweeping reforms to the state’s troubled shelter system that allowed for thousands more families to be housed and set the system on a path to fiscal and operational sustainability. Previously, he served in the Biden Administration as a Senior Advisor for Policy to HUD Deputy Secretary Adrianne Todman, where he managed agency-wide policy and regulatory development that delivered key housing wins, including expanding supply and preservation, increasing and streamlining rental assistance, and better rebuilding from natural disasters. Prior to that, he served as Deputy Director of Drexel University’s Nowak Metro Finance Lab. He holds degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.