Join us in welcoming Rolan Joni Young as a partner in our Real Estate Practice Group. Rolan brings her leadership in the affordable housing, economic development, community development, and community-based healthcare development and regulatory arenas. She has more than 25 years of experience in advancing significant real estate development projects in Connecticut.
Rolan represents clients in commercial real estate, affordable housing, community and economic development, and public and municipal law matters. She assists commercial developers, lenders, public housing authorities, healthcare institutions, and for-profit and nonprofit organizations by stewarding projects through the legal complexities involved in building consensus and support for development proposals. The Housing Authority of the City of New Haven and one of the largest federally qualified Section 330 community health centers in the state of Connecticut are current clients. She has previously represented three other large federally funded housing authorities, two state-funded housing authorities, and two municipalities in Connecticut.
As a community leader, Rolan has championed social justice initiatives that have removed obstacles and created meaningful quality-of-life improvements for disadvantaged communities. Currently, Rolan serves as chair of the board of New Haven Bank and is a member of the Greater New Haven Chapter of The Links, Incorporated. She was chairperson of the board of directors of the Connecticut Housing Finance Authority from 2006 to 2011, is a former chair of the board and a board member of the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven, and previously served on the board of the New Haven Free Public Library Foundation. She served as the first woman president of the Greater New Haven NAACP and was a member of the Executive Board of the NAACP Connecticut State Conference.
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