About GHP

ABOUT GHP

Good Housing Partnership, LLC (GHP) is a real estate development firm focused on the acquisition and development of affordable housing throughout the United States. Our goal is to improve the affordable housing stock by partnering with owners and making substantial improvements to their properties through an extensive rehabilitation that transforms the interiors and exteriors while addressing all deferred maintenance and capital repair issues. We also work with our partners in the development of new affordable units where possible. We achieve this goal through substantial investments meant to improve the experience of the residents and communities where we work.

GHP’s principals have served as development partners to numerous non-profit entities and public agencies throughout the country since 2013. The firm is a national, full service, independent financial advisor/codeveloper/turnkey developer that assists clients and partners in the financing and implementation of affordable housing, urban development, and economic development initiatives.

GHP’s principals have advised on more than $5 billion of financing for real estate related assets, offering both depth and breadth of experience in structuring financial transactions. Clients and Partners include public housing authorities and not-for-profit corporations such as affordable housing providers of low-income housing for families, seniors, veterans, and disabled individuals.

GHP strives to be the best partner, providing the highest quality advisory services possible to its clients and partners. Each client/partner has unique issues and objectives and fortunately our interests are always aligned. The key to being a good partner and providing high quality advisory services is spending time up-front learning the business goals, culture, and style. Frequent communication and integrity are our priorities. The client's/partner’s interest is foremost and sole consideration.

THE GHP APPROACH

Develop/Redevelop residential communities that better meet the needs of the tenants while maximizing the benefit to our development partners.

The residents' needs are our primary consideration in the design and development process

Residents' rights are protected throughout the development process

GHP strives to make the development process seamless to our partners

GHP only takes on engagements or developments where senior leadership will be involved on a day-to-day basis

Our internal rule about new engagements is very simple; we only take on engagements where we are sure we have the internal capacity to handle it properly in conjunction with our other developments, and only when the development is one where we believe, given its size and complexity, that we can add significant value and see a clear way forward to do so

GHP has succeeded in all of its engagements/developments, Our goal is to always over deliver for the benefit of the residents and our partners

Approach

OUR TEAM'S EXPERIENCE

32+

Combined Years
of Experience

50+

Completed Transactions

Fully Financed Development Transactions

$121M

Recently Closed

$338M

Under Development

4.8K+

Homes

Team Experience

SENIOR LEADERSHIP

GHP was formed in early 2019 by Alejandro Lara and Geoff Anderson after working together as consultants for six years. Alejandro and Geoff partnered up with Jack Hollihan and Irwin Ackerman who also provide a breadth of real estate related experience and financial relationships.

Geoff has over decade of multifamily residential development experience including Asset Management, Underwriting and Execution of Tax Credit/Bond financing and HUD Contract Transfers (including acquisitions) of over 30 properties totaling over 2,000 units and over $500 million in development costs. Geoff is an expert in Public Housing Authority conversions and excels in the financing and conversion strategies. He is intimately familiar with HUD’s Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD), Section 18, RAD/Section 18 Blend(s) and Section 22 Streamlined Voluntary Conversion (SVC) Programs. Geoff has excellent relationships with affordable housing agencies, lenders, investors, as well as architects, engineers, contractors, HUD attorneys, Tax Credit attorneys and other consultants. He is involved in every aspect of development from financing through construction, stabilization and asset management, both in the office and in the field. Geoff has successfully negotiated and closed numerous transactions as well as partnership agreements, loan and bond documents and construction contracts. Geoff has a BA from the University of Chicago.

Alejandro has over two decades of real estate development experience having previously worked at nonprofit community development corporations, private affordable housing consulting firms and as a real estate investment banker working on multibillion-dollar mergers and acquisitions. More recently, Alejandro worked as an independent consultant and was responsible for the execution of all transactions including leading all interactions with investors, lenders, attorneys, and consultants. Alejandro was intimately involved in all aspects of the development process from negotiating the acquisition of a property to determining the scope of work and monitoring the contractors and consultants. Many of these transactions involved multiple layers of financing, having successfully closed each one of them while satisfying all of the requirements. Alejandro has an MBA from the Anderson School at UCLA, an MPP from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, and a BA from the University of California, Berkeley. Alejandro was recently on the board for Wellnest, chaired their Real Estate Committee and was part of the Executive Committee, was previously the Chair of the Community Advisory Board for Union Bank and was also a member of the Financial Advisory Committee for the City of Culver City for eight years.

geoffanderson@goodhousingpartnership.com

alejandrolara@goodhousingpartnership.com

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