Thomas T. Demery (born 18 July 1949 in Detroit, Michigan[1]) is a former Assistant Secretary of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
[3]: 13 During the period 1982–1986, Demery served as a consultant to the Department of Housing and Urban Development for technical analyses and reviews of selected HUD multifamily mortgages.
[3]: 3, 8, 13 On August 11, 1986, during his second term in office, then-President Ronald Reagan, after the resignation of Maurice Lee Barksdale from that position,[4] announced his intention to nominate Demery to be the Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (H.U.D.).
At the time, Demery was the president of Income Property Services, Inc.,[3]: 7 a real estate brokerage firm in Birmingham, Michigan.
[6] In 1989, the Chicago Tribune reported that a charity which Demery had founded, "Food for Africa," had received over $290,000 in donations from developers and consultants who were connected with HUD projects.