Longstanding director of Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency to retire
La Shelle Dozier, the longstanding executive director of the Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency, is retiring in the coming weeks.
Dozier has led the agency for 18 years — the longest serving executive director in the agency’s history, according to SHRA spokeswoman Angela Jones, who confirmed Dozier’s departure.
“I hope I’m remembered as someone deeply passionate about serving,” Dozier told the Sacramento Observer, which first reported the story. “Not just for the projects we built, but for the people we were able to impact and change their lives.”
She named the 427-unit $300 million Mirasol Village housing project along 12th Street, which will include a new light rail station, as one of her greatest accomplishments, according to the Observer report. She also named over 500 new units of housing under the state’s Project Homekey program, including one development near City Hall, and emergency rental assistance during the COVID-19 pandemic, which helped over 16,000 households.
The agency has also had challenges in recent years.
In 2023, about 51,000 Sacramentans were on a waiting list for 13,000 Section 8 housing vouchers, The Sacramento Bee reported at the time. In the last two decades, while the number of homeless people in Sacramento has more than quadrupled, the federal government has given Sacramento only an additional 1,000 vouchers.
A federal agency last year criticized SHRA about its number of vacant units in public housing complexes.
The retirement comes amid a potential major restructuring for SHRA. Sen. Angelique Ashby, D-Sacramento, introduced Senate Bill 802, which would create a new countywide entity to address homelessness that would succeed and essentially replace SHRA. That bill is on pause but could come back for legislators to discuss in January.
Dozier’s last day is Oct. 3. It’s unknown who will succeed Dozier, Jones said.
This story was originally published August 26, 2025 at 4:06 PM.
