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2024 Policy Forum & California Housing Hall of Fame Awardees
Daniel B. Lopez
Daniel B. Lopez has over 40 years of experience in the affordable housing field with significant experience in finance, policy making, underwriting and mergers/acquisitions/wind-downs.
He has served as Vice President of Citicorp/Citibank, Community Lending from 1983-1989 and President/CEO of California Community Reinvestment Corporation from 1989-1994.
Since 1994, he has had his own consulting practice specializing in affordable housing finance, program development, and general problem solving. His clients include and have included public agencies, for-profit and nonprofit developers, government sponsored entities, tax credit equity investors, and nonprofit organizations.
Here is a partial list of CHC members who are current and past clients:
City of San Jose Housing Department, Alameda County Housing & Community Development, Core Development, Eden Housing, Inc., Satellite Affordable Housing Associates, California Housing Consortium, Housing Trust Silicon Valley, Peoples Self Help Housing Corporation, USA Properties Fund, California Housing Finance Agency
Daniel has served and continues to serve on a variety of nonprofit and public agency boards, committees, and commissions serving as board chair for many of these efforts as well as chairing various loan and audit committees. He has a B.A. in Economics and Statistics from UCLA and a M.A. in City Planning from San Jose State University where he was a Ford Foundation Fellow.
Marina Wiant
Marina was appointed by Treasurer Fiona Ma as the Executive Director of the California Debt Limit Allocation Committee (CDLAC) and the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee (CTCAC). Both committees are chaired by Treasurer Ma and play a critical role in financing the construction of affordable rental housing in California.
Prior to her appointment, Marina served since 2012 as Vice President of Government Affairs for the California Housing Consortium (CHC), a statewide, nonpartisan advocate for the production and preservation of housing affordable to low- and moderate-income Californians. At CHC, Marina led a policy and advocacy team that secured the passage of a range of legislation, ballot measures, and budget resources that have transformed the affordable housing industry—including the state’s first permanent source of funding for affordable housing since redevelopment and its last statewide housing bond, as well as groundbreaking legislation that has opened new sites to affordable development and accelerated local approvals.
Prior to joining CHC, Marina worked as a legislative staffer in the California State Assembly and interned with the Assembly Business, Professions, and Consumer Protection Committee.
Marina received her J.D. from Santa Clara University, with an emphasis in international law, and received her B.A. from UCLA, majoring in political science and minoring in Global Studies and Russian Language. She was admitted to the California State Bar in December 2010.
Alice Talcott
Alice Talcott is an expert in the financing and structuring of affordable rental housing and an active advocate and leading voice for non-profit developers on statewide housing finance issues. Over the past 30 years, she has taken the lead in securing financing for over 13,000 affordable homes in California. In the process, she has successfully pushed public and private partners for improvements to their programs, policies and terms and also trained and mentored many throughout the industry, including those who have entered the field through internships and other initiatives to attract a diverse pipeline of emerging leaders in affordable housing.
As SVP of Housing Finance at MidPen Housing, she leads the team in the funding nearly 5,000 units currently in the development pipeline that will serve a wide range of people in need of affordable homes, including families, seniors, farmworkers, veterans, people with disabilities, and people with supportive housing needs. She also directs MidPen’s financing regulatory advocacy efforts, has been a systems change leader and is a frequent presenter at industry conferences where she shares her housing finance expertise.
Prior to joining MidPen in 2014, Alice worked for 14 years at Community Economics, where she assisted non-profit developers throughout the state in the financing of affordable housing. Her experience also includes six years at the Mayor’s Office of Housing in San Francisco.
Alice is on the Board of Governors for the California Housing Consortium (CHC) and has served on the board of the Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern California (NPH), where she has been active in policy issues and has represented NPH on multiple statewide task forces for CDLAC and TCAC. When she’s not focused on finding money to build much-needed affordable housing, you’ll find Alice hiking in the East Bay hills or biking around Oakland.
John Huskey
John is a pioneer in the affordable housing industry, with five decades of experience in the development of affordable and market-rate multifamily communities for seniors and families. In 1993, he founded Meta Housing Corporation and guided the vision of the company. Known as the first in the industry to develop arts-focused senior apartment communities that foster creativity and personal growth for residents, Meta Housing’s communities have garnered national awards for innovation and design, and now serve as a model for other developers.
In 2021, John and Kasey Burke formed Meta Development, LLC to continue to build on
the great work and legacy of Meta Housing Corporation. Since inception Meta Development has financed 11 projects with Federal and State Low Income Housing Tax Credits and Tax-Exempt Bonds that will deliver over 1,650 affordable units in California.
Prior to forming Meta Housing, John was President and chief Executive Officer of Calmark Properties, where he successfully took the firm from a small development company to a market leader in less than five years.
John has been recognized by national commercial real estate magazine Commercial Property Executive as one of the “Most Influential People in Real Estate.” He has also been honored by the Building Industry Association Senior Housing Council and the Affordable Living For The Aging organization.
