By Tim Ballering, RPA Board Member

See the link to the article from Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service Here

Yusuf “Joe” is an impressive guy and an asset to our industry. 

The Legislative Committee supports his efforts to repeal the Thurmond Amendment. Crimes committed by a 16-year-old, with the last arrest at 18, should not harm them twenty productive years later.

In addition to being the past president of the Association, Joe is a Princeton Alumnus and, until this summer, the Director of the Dyer School for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Lafayette College, PA. He runs the Real Estate Lab in Allenton.

Here are links to his Prison to Princeton and TED talk videos. They are short and worth viewing.

• Activating Opportunity in Blighted Communities | Yusuf Dahl | TEDxCarnegieLake
• Princeton Profiles: Yusuf Dahl, from prison to Princeton
• Good Morning America video.
• Profile on Lafayette University
• Real Estate Lab Launches
• ‘We’re investing in people.' City Center, Lafayette College collaborating on a Real Estate Lab for Allentown residents