Sarah Edelman

Sarah Edelman serves as the Deputy Assistant Secretary (DAS) for the Office of Single Family Housing (OSFH) within the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Office of Housing. In this role, Sarah is responsible for overseeing the Federal Housing Administration’s (FHA) insurance-in-force portfolio of more than eight million loans with an unpaid principal balance of more than $1.3 trillion. Additionally, she is responsible for managing all aspects of FHA’s single family housing operations including origination and servicing policy, information technology strategy, quality control and lender enforcement, and institutional risk management. In this role, Sarah is also responsible for the management oversight of more than 700 employees.

Immediately prior to assuming the role of the OSFH DAS, Sarah served as the senior director of Environmental and Social Impact and directed the Duty to Serve affordable initiatives at Fannie Mae. Prior to that, she worked in Housing Policy at the Center for American Progress for five years, served as a research fellow in the office of Senator Sherrod Brown, and was a graduate fellow at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Sarah was also both a Peace Corps and an AmeriCorps Vista volunteer.

Sarah holds a bachelor’s degree in history from The George Washington University in Washington, DC, and a master’s degree in public administration from the University of Maryland, College Park, MD.

AC24 Session: The Ever-Evolving Federal Homeownership Policy Landscape

Preserving Owner-Occupied Affordable Homes Sessions:
Federal Policy Actions and Opportunities
Scaling Successful Approaches

HFAi24 Session: Expanding Your Tools to Reach New Borrowers

AC23 Session: Lessons from Pandemic Homeownership Relief Programs