Erin Riley is the Coordinator for the Saginaw County Consortium of Homeless Assistance Providers.  In this role, she works with local homeless service providers and HUD to ensure federal guidelines and priorities are being implemented.  She is responsible for the submission of an annual grant to HUD that brings approximately $2.2 million dollars to Saginaw County. 

Erin has worked in the housing and homeless service field for nearly 25 years.  She started her career in Detroit after receiving her BSW from Wayne State University. She was a housing case manager in the HOPWA program, providing housing services to those with HIV/AIDS.   From that position she became a case manager and moved into a program manager position at a homeless shelter in Flint. This shelter housed approximately 30 people in the emergency shelter and there was also an onsite and offsite transitional housing program.

Throughout her career she has held a variety of positions including working at the American Red Cross providing homeless prevention services.  In this role, she also submitted and was granted a HUD grant for a transitional housing program in rural Arenac County.  From there she spent nearly 10 years as President/CEO of Bay Area Housing where the focus was on housing counseling and nonprofit development focusing on single family homes.

Erin believes that housing is a human right and that everyone should be able to afford safe, decent housing.