Nicole LiBaire has more than two decades of experience in affordable housing and federal programs, and is a nationally recognized expert on disaster preparedness, response, and recovery efforts that address the needs of low-income people. Her recent experience includes disaster recovery work in Hawaii, Florida, and Louisiana. In this work, Ms. LiBaire helped Hawaii and Florida implement HUD’s Rapid Unsheltered Survivor Housing (RUSH), the first federal disaster relief program dedicated to people experiencing homelessness. As Executive Director of the Louisiana Housing Authority, Ms. LiBaire oversaw the state’s 3,000-unit permanent supportive housing (PSH) and homeless programs, developed Louisiana’s plan to end homelessness, and chaired the Governor’s Council on Homelessness. She was instrumental in the state’s nationally recognized hurricane relief efforts, and administered several federal programs that aided in rebuilding.
Ms. LiBaire has experiencing with process improvement related to the Housing Choice Voucher program and is currently providing unsheltered technical assistance to New Orleans and Emergency Housing Voucher technical assistance to public housing authorities across the country. While administering disaster recovery programs in Louisiana she played a large role in the creation and set up of the Louisiana Housing Authority. This work included the coordination of state agencies, local Continuums of Care (CoCs), and advocates. Ms. LiBaire successfully created Louisiana’s Balance of State CoCs in order to renew a large PSH grant that ultimately led to three mergers of local CoCs into the Balance of State.
