COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT & HOUSING WELCOMES NEW ASSISTANT DIRECTOR

In April of this year, Don McKnight joined the City of High Point Community Development & Housing Department as the new assistant director. McKnight comes to the City from Faulkner University in Montgomery, Alabama, where he served as Director of the Eagles Soar I PBI Grant Project.

Over the course of his 20-plus-year career, he has held various grant administration and management positions in the areas of community development, planning, economic development and affordable housing throughout the South from Florida to Texas.

He has extensive experience extending loans and grants to homebuyers to purchase their first homes, grants and loans to homeowners to rehabilitate their homes and loans and grants to homeowners to maintain ownership of their homes through foreclosure prevention initiatives. In addition, his grant experience includes researching, writing proposals and auditing programs and projects.

Don holds a master’s degree in public administration from Saint Edwards University in Austin, Texas; a bachelor’s degree in management from the University of LaVerne in LaVerne, California and an associate’s degree in business administration from Allan Hancock College in Santa Maria, Calif.