Elinor Bacon Citizen Member Term: Appointed March 18, 2008. Current term ends July 21, 2009. Elinor Bacon established ER Bacon Development in 2002, a real estate development and consulting firm that focuses on urban community transformation, infill projects, adaptive reuse, mixed-income, and mixed-use development.  The firm’s primary consulting clients have been Forest City Washington and the Housing Authority of the City of Spartanburg, SC.  In 2001-2002, Ms. Bacon served as the first President and CEO of the National Capital Revitalization Corporation (NCRC), a public real estate development corporation established by the Washington DC Council, with the mission to spur economic development throughout the District.  From June 1997 through December 2000, Ms. Bacon served, under HUD Secretary Andrew Cuomo, as Deputy Assistant Secretary for the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development Office of Public Housing Investments.  Before joining HUD, Ms. Bacon was a private real estate developer and consultant in Baltimore for more than 10 years.  Earlier,  she worked in the field of public sector housing and community development on the City and Federal levels of government, and for The Johns Hopkins Hospital as Community Development Director. Ms. Bacon has a Master of Arts Degree in Chinese Studies from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Bachelor of Arts Degree from The New School for Social Research, New York City.  She is a member of The Urban Land Institute and The Congress for The New Urbanism. She serves on the Development Industry Advisory Council of the DC Department of Small and Local Business Development, and the Advisory Council of the I. Donald Terner Prize for Innovation and Leadership in Affordable Housing.  Bacon is co-chair of the HOPE VI Task Force to Reauthorize the HOPE VI Program.   A resident of Ward 2 in the Dupont and Logan neighborhoods, Ms. Bacon received the 2004 Seaside Prize for her work in HOPE VI and co-leads a cooking class for homeless women at N Street Village.