Scott Spivey

Scott Spivey came to Mississippi Home Corporation as a young college graduate. Since 1998 he has held various positions in the agency, eventually becoming Executive Director of the Mississippi Home Corporation (MHC) in January of 2015. He provides executive leadership in the development and administration of all MHC programs and policies. Spivey works closely and actively with Mississippi’s federal congressional delegation as well as state legislators to achieve positive outcomes for the affordable housing industry. He has participated in successful efforts to pass affordable housing legislation on both the state and federal level. Spivey served as the Vice Chair and Chair of the National Council of State Housing Agencies Board of Directors. He also served as chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas’ Affordable Housing Advisory Council and served on the FreddieMac Affordable Housing Advisory Council. Mr. Spivey’s roles in crafting and implementing housing recovery plans post Katrina illuminated the effects of community development for places. Those lessons inform the policy and results-driven approach the agency employs today.

Mr. Spivey attended Belhaven University, where he was active in student government and the student newspaper, The Quarter Tone. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English in 1998. While working at the Mississippi Home Corporation, he earned his Masters of Arts in English from Mississippi College, graduating summa cum laude. Mr. Spivey worked as a contributing writer for The Planet Weekly in Jackson and has served as an adjunct professor at Belhaven College, teaching World Literature I and II in the evenings. In 2015 Mr. Spivey was named by the Mississippi Business Journal as the Under 40 Business Person of the Year among the Top 50 Under 40 recipients, and in 2024 the Mississippi Business Journal named him one of the State’s Top CEOs in Mississippi.