NEWBURGH – November 16, 2015 – Community development and housing expert Joe Czajka returned to Pattern for Progress this month to take on a newly created position as the nonprofit research and policy organization gets to work on the agenda set forth in its 50th anniversary campaign.
Czajka, a resident of the Town of Newburgh, most recently served as executive director of the anti-poverty agency RECAP (Regional Economic Community Action Program) based in Middletown, and returned to Pattern this month to take on the role of Senior Vice President for Research, Development & Community Planning. Czajka is the founding executive director of the Center for Housing Solutions and Urban Initiatives at Pattern and has resumed that role as well. Czajka will assist the team already at work on Pattern’s Urban Action Agenda, an initiative that is funded in part by the Ford Foundation as well as donors to the Pattern for the Future campaign. The UAA is focused on revitalization of 25 urban centers throughout the Hudson Valley from Yonkers to Monticello to Hudson.
