HDC welcomes Jake Kirsch as Asset Management Project Manager!

HDC is excited to welcome Jake Kirsch to our staff. Jake joined HDC, in February, as the third member of our busy and growing asset management team. In his role as asset management project manager, Jake is leading the tri-county (Washington, Multnomah, and Clackamas counties) 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. (Update: See Koin.com coverage of the RLRA Risk Mitigation Program here.) Additionally, Jake will be providing consulting services to nonprofit owners in conjunction with HDC’s asset management team. We are extremely grateful that Jake is putting his skills, talents, and extensive affordable housing experience to work in this important and multidimensional role!

More about Jake: 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. Prior to joining HDC, 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.