Chris Estes joined Rebuilding Together in January 2018 after five years as President/CEO of the National Housing Conference in Washington, DC. Chris oversaw NHC’s research work on the intersection of housing with transportation, education and health in particular.  He was active in engaging the community development field in local housing/community development efforts and national policy strategy as well as offering resources on best practices in communications and messaging.

Rebuilding Together is a 30-year-old national nonprofit network of 130 local affiliates that specialize in urgent home repair and community revitalization efforts in low and moderate-income communities at no cost to recipients.  Each year their network of affiliates completes around 10,000 repair projects nationwide, including disaster-recovery efforts.

In his role as Senior Vice President of Business Strategy and Advocacy at Rebuilding Together he leads the organization’s policy and advocacy efforts as well as programmatic partnerships with other national, regional and local community development organizations.