Yellow Wolf Hired at Housing Authority as Director

Courtesy TCNN

Tom Yellow Wolf is a member of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation of the Fort Berthold Reservation, New Town, North Dakota who has been in Indian Housing for over 18 years. He has served as the Executive Director of three different housing authorities, worked as a Training and Technical Assistance Specialist for the National American Indian Housing Council (NAIHC), and worked as a consultant to numerous Indian tribes and housing authorities across the United States.

Yellow Wolf has taught a number of Indian Housing Management courses for NAIHC and conducted on-site technical assistance for tribes that had a need to improve their housing authority operations. He has assisted many of the tribes acquire new homes and improve their existing units by developing home modernization programs. Yellow Wolf has also worked with the HUD Section 184 Indian Home Loan Guarantee Program when building new homes for housing authorities and individuals.

Throughout his Indian Housing career Yellow Wolf was worked with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Native American Programs in three different regions of the United States and served as an alternate to the National American Indian Housing Council from two different regions. He has been involved with National Indian Housing issues over the past 18 years and is familiar with many of the issues that confront Indian tribes that lack adequate housing for their members.

Yellow Wolf is a graduate from the University of Mary, Bismarck, North Dakota with a BS Degree in University Studies. He has four children, seven grandchildren, and one great grandson. Mr. Yellow Wolf is a veteran of the U.S. Army and served in Vietnam in 1968. Tom’s oldest son is also an Army veteran and the youngest son is in the U.S. Marines who has served in Iraq and currently based at Twenty-Nine Palms, Cali.