Robert Rochon Taylor (April 12, 1899 – March 1, 1957) was an American housing advocate and banker.
In 1934, Taylor became general manager of the Illinois Federal Savings and Loan to support mortgage lending to black Chicagoans.
Working with CHA director Elizabeth Wood, Taylor presided as chair during a period in which more than 92% of new CHA housing units were occupied by black Chicagoans, a marked shift the housing projects of the 1930s built exclusively for whites.
[4] He was a strong proponent of scattered-site public housing and desegregation of white Chicago neighborhoods to support black economic mobility.
Taylor married Laura Dorothy Vaughan Jennings, with whom he had two daughters, Lauretta and Barbara.