Deborah Thrope

Chief Program Officer
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Deborah Thrope is the Chief Program Officer of the National Housing Law Project. Deborah’s work focuses on federal, state, and local policy advocacy to preserve affordable housing and tenants’ rights. She provides training and technical assistance to advocates working with low-income tenants and serves as an advisor and editor of NHLP’s seminal publication, HUD Housing Programs: Tenants Rights. Deborah has testified before Congress about increasing economic mobility in the Housing Choice Voucher program and improving living conditions for public housing residents. Before joining NHLP, Deborah was a senior attorney at the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley and represented clients with disabilities facing eviction and civil commitment.

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Stacey Tutt

Homeowner Assistance Fund Coordinator and Senior Staff Attorney
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Stacey Tutt is the Homeowner Assistance Fund Coordinator and a Senior Staff Attorney at NHLP. Her work focuses on the national implementation of the Homeowner’s Assistance Fund, predatory lending, mortgage servicing, and energy efficiency housing finance. She also serves as the Consumer Claims Trustee in the Ditech Holding Corporation Bankruptcy. Prior to joining NHLP, Stacey designed and directed the Consumer Law Clinic at the University of California, Irvine School of Law. The Consumer Law Clinic focused on keeping low-income consumers in their homes after experiencing home improvement fraud, and advocating on behalf of vulnerable populations with government-imposed debt. She also developed and directed the Community Preservation Clinic at the University of Illinois College of Law which provided foreclosure defense to vulnerable homeowners, developed foreclosure mediation programs throughout the state, and designed neighborhood revitalization efforts following the foreclosure crisis.