Ann Marie Oliva

Ann Marie Oliva is the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Special Needs, which oversees the Office of HIV/AIDS Housing and the Office of Special Needs Assistance Programs (SNAPS), the office that manages HUD's homeless programs.  Ms. Oliva has been with the Department since 2007 and was the Director of SNAPS from May 2007 through July 2014.  As Director of SNAPS, Ms. Oliva managed a portfolio of over 8,000 competitive and formula grants with an annual budget of over $2 billion.  In her tenure at HUD, Ms. Oliva has managed the design and implementation of the $1.5 billion Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program and the overhaul of HUD's homeless program portfolio as part of implementation of the HEARTH Act.  Prior to coming to HUD, Ms. Oliva was an independent human services consultant and technical assistance provider, and spent more than 9 years at the Community Partnership for the Prevention of Homelessness, the organization responsible for administration of public homeless services in the District of Columbia.