Christopher J. Tyson is President of NCST (National Community Stabilization Trust), a national nonprofit advancing affordable homeownership and neighborhood stabilization. He leads the organization’s strategy, operations, and national partnerships, aligning policy, capital, and practice to expand access to sustainable homeownership. Under his leadership, NCST has strengthened and expanded its capital deployment strategies, advanced a modernized federal homeownership policy agenda, and launched a certified Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) to finance mission-driven developers revitalizing distressed single-family housing markets.

Prior to NCST, Tyson served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Build Baton Rouge, the city’s redevelopment authority and land bank. There, he led an institutional transformation and secured more than $50 million in federal, philanthropic, and private investment. He structured complex real estate transactions, assembled layered capital stacks, and advanced public-private partnerships to catalyze neighborhood revitalization.

Tyson previously served as the Newman Trowbridge Distinguished Professor of Law at Louisiana State University. A tenured and endowed faculty member, he taught and published in property, real estate development, and local government law. His academic work and public commentary have appeared in leading law journals and national outlets, including The New York Times and Bloomberg CityLab.

He holds degrees in architecture from Howard University, public policy from the Harvard Kennedy School, and law from Georgetown University.