David Rosen is Founder and Principal of David Paul Rosen & Associates (DRA), a 28-year-old public interest consulting firm with expertise in capital formation strategies for affordable housing and community economic development. DRA was founded in 1980, He is well known nationally for groundbreaking work in capital formation strategies and financial structures benefiting low income and minority neighborhoods and communities and has pioneered the strategic use of scarce affordable housing and local economic development public resources and land use planning policy.

Rosen and DRA have been selected by the California Redevelopment Association as the only firm in the State to conduct the Basic Affordable Housing and Advanced Affordable Housing Institutes for CRA in 2006, 2007 and 2008. His work includes clients in the public, private and non-profit sectors in 39 states and in more than 160 cities, involving more than $6 billion in program and transaction financing. Rosen’s substantial achievements include the creation of state housing trust funds as permanent and dedicated, annually renewable sources of revenue for the production and reservation of low income housing, innovative financing structures for redevelopment agencies, trend setting work in the negotiation and structure of financial commitments and partnerships with banks, insurance companies, government sponsored enterprises, and other financial institutions. Rosen is nationally recognized for his work on inclusionary housing, affordable housing strategic and capital planning. He has worked extensively with the low income housing tax credit, having created a local nonprofit equity fund, as well as routinely securing premium pricing for tax credit investments.

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