About Jared

Jared is an expert in affordable housing finance with extensive experience in early-stage feasibility analysis, financial modeling, and securing public and private funding for multifamily developments. As a consultant, he works with organizations to assess development scenarios, build complete capital stacks, and navigate entitlement processes to bring projects to fruition.

Prior to his work as a consultant, Jared served as Associate Director of Real Estate Development at Eden Housing, one of California’s leading affordable housing developers with over 10,000 units in its portfolio. In this role, he managed a development pipeline of more than 750 units across eight new construction projects, overseeing feasibility assessments, entitlement approvals, financial structuring, and building design and construction. He developed a variety of projects that included family, senior, supportive, special needs, and teacher housing.

Jared has experience across all phases of affordable housing development, from site analysis and environmental approvals to design, construction, and lease-up. His primary focus is financial feasibility and underwriting — at Eden Housing, he secured over $145M in public funding from local, state, and federal sources, including the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC), and closed more than $400M in debt and equity investments.

Key Project Successes:

Developed a site plan for a 5-acre parking lot in Cupertino, optimizing the 250-unit program for tax credit and state financing competitiveness.

Secured land use entitlements and tax-credit financing for a 130-unit supportive housing development in downtown San Jose.

Secured land use entitlements and tax-credit financing for a 100-unit supportive housing development in Mountain View’s North Bayshore area.

He holds a master’s degree in City Planning from the University of California, Berkeley, where he researched housing affordability and zoning reforms at the Terner Center for Housing Innovation. He also produced design guidelines for permanent supportive housing for the non-profit affordable housing developer Community Housing Partnership (now HomeRise), which were informed by post-occupancy evaluations he conducted with building residents and staff.

Before entering affordable housing development, Jared worked in economic consulting at Cornerstone Research in New York and London, and as a research analyst at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, where he conducted policy research.

Jared’s blend of financial acumen, entitlement expertise, and hands-on development experience makes him well-equipped to lead feasibility analyses and guide strategic decision-making for complex housing projects.