Helping create socially and economically healthy communities!
We work to provide training, research and consulting to help individuals
and communities
solve workforce and affordable housing issues and to create economic vitality.
A Few Words About Us
William S. Hettinger
William S. Hettinger, Ph.D., is President of Prosperous Communities. Dr. Hettinger is an internationally known expert on workforce housing solutions for resort communities and community leadership strategies.
Dr. Hettinger has more than twenty years of experience in housing, real estate, and community development. Over the years, he has been a developer of affordable housing; a housing director; an asset manager; a portfolio manager; and a consultant to corporations and nonprofits engaged in real estate, community development, and leadership.
Dr. Hettinger is the founder and head of the Housing Development and Leadership program at Bay Path College.
He earned a Ph.D. in international development from the University of Southern Mississippi, where his research focused on housing and tourism. He also earned an MBA from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a bachelor's degree from the University of Buffalo; and is a graduate of the Economic Development Institute at the University of Oklahoma.
The mission of Prosperous Communities is to help create socially and economically healthy communities.
We do this by providing consulting, research, and training to organizations and individuals working to create and preserve workforce and affordable housing and working to maintain economic vitality in the community.
Prosperous Communities offers a full range of consulting, research and training services. Our services are focused on:
Creating and preserving workforce and affordable housing units;
Creating and preserving a community’s economic vitality;
Providing education and training to those responsible for housing on how the housing process works and the leadership techniques that can be used to implement change in an organization or community.
