Richard Cho serves as Senior Advisor for Housing and Services to Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Marcia L. Fudge. In this role, he advises the Secretary and helps set HUD’s policy strategy for solving homelessness, coordinating health with housing, and meeting the housing needs of people with disabilities, older adults, and people involved in the criminal justice system.  Richard brings to this role two decades of experience at the community, state, and federal levels building collaboration between the housing, health care, social services, and criminal justice sectors to address the housing and services needs of vulnerable Americans. He served as Deputy Director at the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness during the Obama Administration and has held positions at CSH, the CSG Justice Center, and the Connecticut Coalition to End Homelessness.