Carin Clary is the Director of Homelessness and Housing at the Government Performance Lab (GPL), where she leads a team supporting State and local governments to prevent households from becoming homeless in the first place and make the rehousing process more efficient, effective, and equitable. GPL supports localities’ progress in reducing homelessness through the alignment and coordination of systems beyond homeless response agencies to create broader local ownership of the problem of, and solutions to, homelessness.

Prior to joining the GPL, Carin was the Assistant Deputy Commissioner for New York City’s Human Resources Administration’s (HRA) Office of Supportive and Affordable Housing. There, Carin directed NYC’s largest referral and placement system for homeless households into a continuum of publicly supported housing, coordinating over 20,000 referrals annually and sat on the NYC Continuum of Care Steering Committee for Coordinated Entry and Placement Services. She led the pilot and subsequent expansion of NYC’s master leased housing program, expanding the City’s stock of permanent affordable housing through new contracting mechanisms totaling over $20M annually. Prior to HRA, Carin served as a Senior Advisor for the Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services, serving as chief agency and policy liaison for the NYC Dept. of Homeless Services and Human Resources Administration, with a combined annual budget of over $15B, serving over 3M New Yorkers per year. Outside of housing, Carin has also served in leadership capacities for criminal justice reform non-profits such as the Fortune Society and the Center for Court Innovation where she led workforce development operations. She is currently based in New York, where she earned her BA in Individualized Study from New York University.