Elayne B. Weiss

Elayne Weiss serves as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy Development in HUD's Office of Policy Development and Research. She previously served as a senior policy advisor in the Office of Housing and the Federal Housing Administration. Prior to joining HUD, Ms. Weiss served as the Director of Housing, Community Development, and Insurance Policy with the House Committee on Financial Services, where her work focused on homelessness and affordable housing policy. While serving on the Committee, Ms. Weiss developed and directed federal housing policy and led the Committee's work to provide pandemic housing relief, including over $46 billion in emergency rental assistance.

Ms. Weiss also worked as a senior policy analyst with the National Low Income Housing Coalition and as a legislative assistant with the American Civil Liberties Union. Ms. Weiss holds a J.D. from the Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law and a B.A. in economics from Brandeis University.