• Represented developer of 800 units of affordable and market rate housing in a redevelopment area in San Francisco, handling various aspects of environmental review and project entitlements, land transfers, private and public financing, which involves over $500 million of funding for a three-phase development involving tax-exempt bond financing, low-income housing tax credits, and multiple subordinate loans.
• Represented limited partnerships acquiring nine projects under the first and second phases of the San Francisco Rental Assistance Demonstration (“RAD”) Program in accordance with the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act of 2012 (Pub. L. 112-55, signed November 18, 2011, as amended), of which one developer acquired more than 700 units of affordable housing in the Mission, Castro, and Bernal Heights area, and the other developer which acquired 439 units of affordable housing in the Hunters Point neighborhood. The goal of the San Francisco RAD Program was to transfer ownership and management from the Housing Authority of the City and County of San Francisco (SFHA) to eight different owner/developer teams to leverage the private financing necessary to address long underfunded capital needs for the 3,469 former public housing units. The $2.2 billion financing involved leveraging private capital in the form of tax-exempt bond construction and permanent loans, tax-credit equity and services funding, as well as City of San Francisco and SFHA subordinate debt.
• Represented a tax-credit limited partnership for the acquisition and rehabilitation of 93 apartment units located in two buildings on an approximately 1.3 acre site in the San Francisco Castro neighborhood.
• Represented an existing tax-credit limited partnership in converting the assistance of 148 affordable housing units to the RAD program.
• Represented the University of California, San Francisco in connection with its long range planning for use of its San Francisco campus sites, including the Mission Bay research and medical center sites.
• Represented developer in obtaining local entitlements and state and federal regulatory approvals for a project in the East Bay that includes 760 new homes, 250,000 square feet of new maritime commercial space, shoreline open space and a marina.
• Represented multiple non-profit housing developers in successfully obtaining entitlements for several San Francisco affordable housing projects.

Speaking Engagements

• Lubin Olson & Niewiadomski LLP, 2018 — Speaker at annual California Residential Update — “Land Use, Housing and the California Environmental Quality Act.”