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In 1977
became the one of the youngest people ever elected to public office in
the nation when he was elected to the Flint Board of Education at age
18. He and his wife Jennifer have three children: Ryan, age 29, a
graduate of Michigan Technological University, and works in the private
sector in Colorado Springs, Colorado; Kenneth, age 17; and Katy, age 15.
Kildee
initiated the use of Michigan’s new tax foreclosure law as a tool for
community development and neighborhood stabilization. He founded the
Genesee Land Bank - Michigan’s first land bank - and serves as its
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.
Kildee is
President of the Genesee Institute, a research and training institute
focusing on Smart Growth, urban land reform, and land banking.
In 2003
Governor Granholm and legislative leaders appointed Kildee to the
Michigan Land Use Leadership Council, which made 160 recommendations to
address urban sprawl and other land use issues. In 2005 Granholm
appointed Kildee as one of the initial directors of the Michigan Land
Bank Fast Track Authority, the nation’s first statewide Land Bank, which
Kildee currently chairs.
In 2005 he
completed a Fannie Mae Foundation Fellowship at the Harvard University
Kennedy School of Government.
Dan Kildee
is a member of the Executive Committee of the National Vacant Properties
Campaign.
In 2007,
Kildee’s Land Bank program was named winner of the Harvard
University/Fannie Mae Foundation Innovations in American Government
Award for Affordable Housing, and in 2008 Kildee was the recipient of
the Michigan “Excellence in Land Use Leadership Award” by the MSU Land
Policy Institute and the Michigan Land Use Funders Network.
He
currently serves as Chairman of Michigan’s Fifth Congressional District
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