Marcia Davis
In this episode of ChangeMakers with Katie Goar, Katie sits down with Marcia Davis, Executive Director of the Housing Authority of the City of Fort Myers, for a powerful conversation about leadership, resilience, and the future of affordable housing in Southwest Florida.
Marcia shares how growing up in public housing shaped her career and why she chose to spend more than two decades working inside the system to create stability and opportunity for families. From her early work as a child welfare investigator to leading one of Florida’s most ambitious housing redevelopment efforts, her story shows how lived experience drives policy, planning, and people first leadership
The conversation also covers the impact of Hurricane Ian and how disaster recovery funds allowed Fort Myers to preserve and rebuild housing at a scale never before possible. Marcia walks through how more than eighty million dollars in recovery funding now supports new construction, major rehabilitation, and hurricane resistant senior housing designed to protect residents during future storms
This episode offers a clear look at what modern housing authority leadership looks like when strategy, community, and compassion align.
Marcia shares how growing up in public housing shaped her career and why she chose to spend more than two decades working inside the system to create stability and opportunity for families. From her early work as a child welfare investigator to leading one of Florida’s most ambitious housing redevelopment efforts, her story shows how lived experience drives policy, planning, and people first leadership
The conversation also covers the impact of Hurricane Ian and how disaster recovery funds allowed Fort Myers to preserve and rebuild housing at a scale never before possible. Marcia walks through how more than eighty million dollars in recovery funding now supports new construction, major rehabilitation, and hurricane resistant senior housing designed to protect residents during future storms
This episode offers a clear look at what modern housing authority leadership looks like when strategy, community, and compassion align.
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