Greg Faust

In every institution, there is a moment when a problem stops being a problem and becomes a condition. No vote is taken, no one argues, and the line item survives another year. Greg Faust has spent two decades solving those problems anyway. He is Town Administrator for the Town of Bristol, where the question is whether the ceiling on a small town is structural or just a rumor everyone agreed to believe.

As Director of Veteran Services and Community Programs at UMOM New Day Centers in Phoenix, Greg ran a portfolio of six rapid rehousing grants, permanent supportive housing, workforce development, and nine Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) properties. Inside it sat a waiting list of homeless veteran families. Nobody was working that list anymore; it had become a line item with names on it. He rebuilt the rehousing model, and the list emptied. Maricopa County reached functional zero for veteran families and held it three years running, the only program in Arizona to do so. Parts of that model now run in VA pilot programs. He later raised $10 million for regional homeless outreach across Maricopa County, then moved to the City of Phoenix as a development project manager on Edison-Eastlake, the $220 million HUD Choice Neighborhoods rebuild turning three public housing projects built in the 1940s into 1,100 mixed-income homes.

He got there by a route no career counselor would have drawn. Greg spent ten years in the Army as an infantryman, retiring after three combat tours in Iraq between 2005 and 2010. There he ran counterinsurgency operations and helped secure the first free national elections in the country's history, the first contested elections in which Iraqi women cast ballots. He led a Command Security Detachment, providing protection for VIP officers and diplomats.

In Bristol, the ceiling turned out to be structural after all, and made of pipe. The town is in the middle of the largest infrastructure project in its history: replacing the water system end to end, pulling lead service lines out of the ground at no cost to homeowners in the district, and building the water treatment capacity that decides how many businesses the downtown can hold. Working with his counterpart in Middlebury, Greg stood up the Addison County Regional Managers work group, the first county-wide forum of its kind in Vermont. He remains unconvinced that a community of 3,800 is limited to the ambitions usually assigned to one.

Greg holds a Master of Science in Industrial and Organizational Psychology and a Bachelor of Science in Nursing, both from Grand Canyon University. He joined the ACEDC Board of Directors in December 2025, representing the Town of Bristol.