Long-time Tucson developer Peter Herder has been appointed by Gov. Jan Brewer to the Arizona Housing Commission, an advisory group to the governor and the state Department of Housing.

A third-generation builder, Herder comes from a family that has built more than 20,000 homes in Arizona, Colorado and California. Since the 1960s, Herder himself has built about 5,000 homes in the Tucson area, including 1,500 in the Catalina Foothills. Today his firm, the Herder Companies, is in the land development business in four states.

The housing commission is comprised of 24 representatives of private industry, community-based nonprofit housing organizations, and state, local and tribal

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