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SB: What's in Store for Affordable Housing
What's in Store for Affordable Housing
Peter Lawrence
Director of Public Policy and Government relations, Marketing
Novogradac & Company LLP
Peter Lawrence is the director of public policy and government relations for Novogradac & Company LLP. Before joining Novogradac & Company, Mr. Lawrence was the senior director of public policy and government affairs for Enterprise Community Partners, where he led the execution of Enterprise’s policy and advocacy agenda. His primary issue responsibilities were tax (including advocacy on the low-income housing tax credit [LIHTC] and the new markets tax credit [NMTC] programs as well as tax incentives to promote green and sustainable building), affordable housing preservation and rental housing policy. While at Enterprise, he helped found the Affordable Rental Housing A.C.T.I.O.N. (A Call to Invest in Our Neighborhoods) Campaign, the big tent industry coalition bringing investors, syndicators, for-profit and nonprofit developers, and other LIHTC professionals in all 50 states together to advocate for the credit. He has served on the board of directors of the Affordable Housing Tax Credit Coalition, as well as the board of directors of the New Markets Tax Credit Coalition. Mr. Lawrence was also previously a legislative and policy associate at the National Council of State Housing Agencies (NCSHA), focusing on the LIHTC, tax-exempt housing private activity bond programs, and government sponsored enterprises. Mr. Lawrence also was a housing policy analyst for the Center on Budget Policies and Priorities, where he worked on the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program, a congressional fellow for Sen. Jack Reed of Rhode Island in his capacity as the Ranking Member of the Senate Housing and Transportation Subcommittee and a presidential management fellow for the Office of Policy Development & Research at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). In addition to his federal experience, he has served as an analyst for the affordable housing group of Chicago Metropolis 2020, and as an appointed member of the Interagency Taskforce on Homelessness of the city of Berkeley, Calif.
Ronne Thielen
Executive Vice President
R4 Capital Inc.
Ronne Lynn Thielen is an executive vice president of R4 Capital Inc. She is based in the Newport Beach, Calif., office, where she is responsible for running west coast operations as well as acquiring housing tax-credit and bond-financed properties throughout the United States. Ms. Thielen has spent her 39-year real estate finance and investment career as an affordable housing advocate and has been a low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC) industry leader since inception of the program in 1986. Immediately before joining R4 Capital, Ms. Thielen formed the Housing Resource Connection, a consultancy based in Southern California to assist those working in the LIHTC industry. From 1994 to 2011, she was a managing director in the affordable housing group at Centerline Capital Group, where she managed its California office and grew its LIHTC portfolio into the largest segment of the company’s tax-credit portfolio. Preceding her 17-year tenure at Centerline, Ms. Thielen was executive director of the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee from 1991 to 1994. Before that, she was deputy director for program and policy development at the National Council of State Housing Agencies and before that, served at the Vermont Housing Finance Agency in the multifamily finance and asset management arenas. Ms. Thielen is a past president and current president emeritus on the board of the Affordable Housing Tax Credit Coalition and is an active member of several national and state associations that address affordable housing issues, including serving as a past chairwoman and current board member of the National Housing & Rehabilitation Association, member of the Tax Credit Advisor Editorial Advisory Board and member of the California Housing Consortium policy committee. She is also on the board of Abode Communities, a nonprofit LIHTC developer in Los Angeles. She has been inducted into the Affordable Housing Finance Hall of Fame. Ms. Thielen earned a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University.
Anthony Zeto
Development Section Chief
California Tax Credit Allocation Committee (TCAC)
Anthony Zeto has served as the development section chief for California Tax Credit Allocation Committee (TCAC) since 2013. As the section chief, he oversees the evaluation of applications for low-income housing tax credits (LIHTCs) throughout the state of California. He manages the progress of these projects from the initial application through project completion. He has represented TCAC at local, state and national tax credit conferences and TCAC application training workshops. Mr. Zeto received a bachelor’s degree in biological sciences from the University of California, Davis.
Lauryn Alleva
Senior Policy Advisor
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
Lauryn Alleva recently returned to the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) as senior policy advisor to the deputy assistant secretary for multifamily housing. Ms. Alleva previously worked at HUD from 2011 to 2015 both in multifamily asset management and the program administration office. During her initial tenure with HUD, Ms. Alleva worked on numerous asset management policies including Section 8(bb) transfers of Section 8 budget authority and the portfolio wide risk rating system for all 30,000 HUD Multifamily assets. She left HUD in 2015 to work for a multifamily mortgage bank, where she worked in the origination of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac market rate loans. Before working for HUD, Ms. Alleva received her master’s degree in economic development from the University of Cincinnati, after serving a two-year term of service in the U.S. Peace Corps.
Doug Shoemaker
President
Mercy Housing California
Doug Shoemaker was appointed president of Mercy Housing California in 2011. In this role, he is responsible for leading Mercy Housing’s operations in California, including the oversight of affordable housing development, fundraising and resident services. He brings more than 15 years’ experience in the affordable housing and community development industry to Mercy Housing California. Before Mercy Housing, Mr. Shoemaker served as the director of the Mayor’s Office of Housing (MOH), San Francisco’s housing finance and community development agency. He led various key mayoral initiatives at MOH, including the launch of HOPE SF, San Francisco’s groundbreaking effort to revitalize five distressed public housing sites into mixed-income communities. Mr. Shoemaker joined MOH in February 2006 as the deputy director and was promoted to director in 2008. Before joining MOH, Mr. Shoemaker served as deputy director of the Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern California, a 500-member affordable housing trade association. From 2001 to 2006, he directed policy and advocacy work with housing finance agencies as well as the state Legislature. A highlight of this work was serving as the Northern California campaign coordinator for Proposition 46, a successful $2.1 billion affordable housing bond passed by voters in 2002. In addition, Mr. Shoemaker supervised regional advocacy work on inclusionary housing and co-authored numerous reports and articles including "Inclusionary Housing in California: 30 Years of Innovation." Mr. Shoemaker started his career in housing as a project manager for Mission Housing Development Corporation (MHDC), a community-based housing developer in San Francisco. At MHDC from 1995-2000, he developed the first affordable housing community in the Mission Bay neighborhood of San Francisco and helped to develop numerous supportive housing developments in the Mission District and South of Market area. He serves on the board of governors for California Housing Consortium and the Northern California Leadership Council for Enterprise Community Partners. He previously served on the Treasure Island Development Authority, was chairman of the High Cost Cities Housing Forum and was president of the California Association of Local Housing Finance Agencies. Previously, Mr. Shoemaker taught housing policy at the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of California at Berkeley and authored reports for the Center for Transit-Oriented Development and Policy Link. He received a bachelor’s degree in comparative area studies from Duke University and has done studies toward a Ph.D. in Latin American history at the University of California at Berkeley.