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 cross-functional team delivering 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. 

Baaba has over two decades of experience in housing, community development, and policy, and a deep commitment to racial equity. Prior to Enterprise, Baaba held senior roles in government including as the executive deputy commissioner and chief diversity officer at the NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD); as assistant commissioner of Government Relations and Regulatory Compliance at HPD, in which she led legislative strategy and negotiation. Baaba also served for eight years with the New York City Council, in various legal and leadership roles, with responsibilities ranging from steering communications strategy to negotiating and drafting legislation. Baaba also worked as a public interest attorney in the nonprofit sector at Covenant House New Jersey and Housing Works, where she focused on issues such as homelessness and housing discrimination. Baaba received a bachelor’s degree from Morgan State University and a law degree from Brooklyn Law School.