Baaba Halm

Baaba Halm is the New York market leader for Enterprise Community Partners, a national nonprofit on a mission to make home and community places of pride, power, and belonging, and platforms for resilience and upward mobility for all.

Baaba leads a 50-person cross-functional team delivering the program, capital, and policy solutions to address New York’s most complex housing challenges. Under Baaba’s leadership, the New York market is increasing the housing supply, advancing racial equity, and building resilience and upward mobility through developing and deploying programs that focus on preservation, homelessness, fair housing, justice-involved housing, faith-based development, economic mobility, leveraging the affordable housing sector to create career pathways, supporting BIPOC developers, and much more. Over more than 30 years, Enterprise has invested over $3.9 billion to create or preserve over 73,000 homes in New York.

Baaba received a bachelor’s degree from Morgan State University and a law degree from Brooklyn Law School.