Casey Blount

Casey Blount has been the Regional Director for the Rocky Mountain and Great Plains regions of the Economic and Market Analysis Division (EMAD) in HUD's Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R) since 2023. He has been with HUD since 2010, when he began as a field economist in the San Francisco Regional Office. His early work with HUD covered housing market conditions in the Pacific region, with a concentration on areas in the Central Valley of California. Mr. Blount transferred to the Los Angeles Field Office in 2014 where his focus shifted to some of the most active housing markets in the nation, including Atlanta, Nashville, and Las Vegas. He has also played an important role in the evolution of EMAD writing, particularly the training and development of new analysts.

Mr. Blount holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon. His undergraduate studies also included a minor in literature.