Jack Cann graduated from Carleton College in 1964 and did three years of graduate work at Stanford University. In 1968, Jack was a co-founder of the Minneapolis Tenants Union and began to work full time on a variety of housing related activities, many of them litigation oriented. This provided him with a unique breadth and depth of experience relevant to housing litigation, including tenants’ rights organizing, advocacy, lobbying, and real estate development and housing finance. He founded a non-profit that developed one of the first Section 8 projects in the state and was the first non-profit nationally to use limited partner-investor financing. He put together a legal strategy that gave residents control over Minneapolis urban renewal projects, changing several from demolition projects to rehabilitation with community-based developers. He graduated magna cum laude from William Mitchell College of Law in 1986. Jack brings a great deal of knowledge and experience to the HJC staff. He has worked extensively since the mid-1970s with Section 236, Section 8, Low Income Housing Tax Credits, and Community Development Block Grants. He co-founded HJC (originally called the Housing Preservation Project) in 1998 and litigated over 30 preservation cases on both the federal district court and appellate level, in Minnesota and across the country. His experience and knowledge of financing tools and compliance requirements gives HJC an advantage in both negotiations and litigation.