Jake Kirsch, Asset Management Project Manager and Community Fund Loan Officer

Jake Kirsch believes that expanding housing access is a pillar of antipoverty work and that prosperity is possible for all. He enjoys working with all stakeholders to reduce barriers to housing. As an asset management project manager at HDC, Jake leads the Portland-metro tri-county (Washington, Multnomah, and Clackamas) Regional Long-Term Rent Assistance (RLRA) Risk Mitigation Program and the Portland Risk Mitigation Pool. Both programs reimburse landlords for excess costs and losses associated with providing rental housing to people experiencing homelessness. Additionally, Jake provides consulting services to nonprofit owners in conjunction with HDC’s asset management team. As the loan officer for HDC’s affiliated lending entity, HDC Community Fund, Jake underwrites short-term loans to support the development of affordable housing and community facilities. Prior to joining HDC in February 2023, Jake worked in multiple roles with the Network for Oregon Affordable Housing (NOAH) over a period of ten years. As a relationship manager with NOAH, he generated, underwrote, and monitored loans to support the development of affordable rental housing across Oregon. Previously, Jake coordinated the Katrina Housing Group, a coalition of advocates working on Gulf Coast recovery, as a staff member of the National Low Income Housing Coalition, in Washington D.C. Jake serves on the board of Northwest Housing Alternatives, the organization where he started his career in affordable housing as an administrative coordinator in 2005. He has a bachelor’s degree in ethics and political philosophy from Brown University.