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Robert B. Pitts
Robert Pitts was the first black Regional Administrator of the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
==Significant Contributions==
Robert (Bob) Pitts was a long-term civil servant in the housing administration field. He began his government housing career as an Assistant Regional Economist with the Public Housing Administration in Seattle, Washington, in 1947. He rose quickly in his career through several government housing agencies: as an economist, market analyst and race relations officer. He was selected Deputy Regional Administrator of the Housing and Home Finance Agency (HHFA) for the West Coast Region in 1962. He was named Regional Administrator in 1964, at a time when it was so unusual for a black person to achieve such high rank that the local newspaper used the headline ''West Housing--Negro Chief?'' to announce his selection. When the HHFA was absorbed into the new Department of Housing and Urban Development in August 1965, Bob was named the Regional Administrator for the Western Region,〔 and was also asked to chair the task force to lead the reorganization plan for the HUD regional offices. He became known as one of the principal architects of the new structure of the HUD.
Bob was HHFA Regional Administrator at the time when California's Proposition 14 amended the state constitution to nullify the Rumford Fair Housing Act. Although this action put his office into unprecedented turmoil, Bob said that the act was not all bad, since it brought the undercurrent of opposition to fair housing out into the open. Bob's dedicated assistance to the community in the ensuing race riots in the Watts section of Los Angeles and in Oakland, in the Bay Area, earned him respect on all sides and resulted in the new Watts Community Center being named after him; ''The Robert B. Pitts Westminster Neighborhood Center''.〔 Bob also helped with the negotiations when, in 1969, American-Indian activists occupied Alcatraz Island To honor Bob for his many contributions to their community over the years, in 1986 the City and County of San Francisco Commission of the Housing Authority designated the new Yerba Buena Plaza West as ''The Robert B. Pitts Housing Development.''
In retirement, Bob continued to work as a lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Business Administration and also served as CEO of his own firm, Urban Consultants, Inc. He later became Vice President and member of the board of, Applied Urbanology, Inc. in San Francisco. He was a member of the board of Twin Pines Federal Savings & Loan in Berkeley and served on the Marin County Redevelopment Agency. He consulted with the Organization of American States on housing in the Republic of Trinidad & Tobago. He served as chief consultant to President Jimmy Carter's transition team on housing and development, often served as a consultant to his old agency, and occasionally represented other firms in their dealings with the agency.〔
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