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David Bowers

David Bowers

Vice President and Mid-Atlantic Market Leader

Enterprise Community Partners

David Bowers

Vice President and Mid-Atlantic Market Leader

Enterprise Community Partners

David Bowers is vice president and Mid-Atlantic market leader for Enterprise Community Partners, Inc. His work includes facilitating affordable housing and community development transactions and policy implementation in collaboration with public and private sector stakeholders in the Baltimore and Washington, D.C. metropolitan areas. His office provides access to financing, capacity building and technical assistance to local developers. Enterprise’s Mid-Atlantic office also participates with local coalitions advocating for increased resources for affordable housing and community development. Since David joined Enterprise in 2004, the organization has invested more than $800 million in capital to support affordable housing efforts in the Mid-Atlantic region, preserving or producing more than 11,000 homes. During David’s tenure, the office has been a co-initiator and co-convener of the Housing Leaders Group of Greater Washington, initiated several efforts including its Faith-Based Development Initiative, a transit-oriented preservation/resident displacement prevention initiative (GreenPATH) and the D.C. Green Communities Initiative. He currently serves on the board of the Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers.

In 2004, David completed his service as a program manager for a single-family housing program at the AFL-CIO Housing Investment Trust. Prior to joining the trust, David was a financial and programs advisor at the Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) Fund. In that position, he developed and managed CDFI’s compliance monitoring review system. Before that, he worked in the office of U.S. Senator Barbara A. Mikulski, at the time the ranking member of the Senate VA-HUD Appropriations Committee. David served as the senator’s senior legislative assistant, with responsibility for analyzing and providing policy recommendations on legislation pending before various appropriations subcommittees.

David earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Virginia and his Master of Divinity degree from Howard University. He is an ordained minister and the founder of the all-volunteer NO MURDERS DC movement, launched in 2000. From 2013- 2015 David served as the mayoral appointee as chairman of the District of Columbia Housing Production Trust Fund Advisory Board. David is a founding member of the Greater Washington chapter of 100 Black Men and a member of Leadership Greater Washington (’09). David formerly served on the boards of the National Low-Income Housing Coalition, Thrive DC, City First Enterprises, City First Homes, Jubilee Housing and the Northern Virginia Affordable Housing Alliance. He is a former member of the District of Columbia’s Board of Real Property Assessments and Appeals and the District of Columbia’s Juvenile Justice Advisory Group.

Maintaining Affordability During Coronavirus

Bo Menkiti

Bo Menkiti

CEO

Menkiti Group

Buwa Binitie

Buwa Binitie

Founder and CEO

Dumas Collective

Seth Whetzel

Seth Whetzel

Business Development Officer

Capital Impact Partners

Matt Greeson
Moderator

Matt Greeson

Member

Reno & Cavanaugh

Bo Menkiti

CEO

Menkiti Group

Bo Menkiti is the Founder and CEO of the Menkiti Group, a real estate company dedicated to transforming lives

and communities through real estate. The Menkiti Group is focused on strengthening neighborhoods through

the strategic development, management, and disposition of real estate in urban markets. Mr. Menkiti also

serves as CEO and is the Founding Partner of Keller Williams Capital Properties, a residential real estate

brokerage managed by the Menkiti Group.

Mr. Menkiti’s work has been featured in David Bornstein’s book on social entrepreneurs “How to Change the

World,” and in Stephen Goldsmith’s “The Power of Social Innovation.” Mr. Menkiti has been recognized

nationally by Ebony and Inc. Magazine as one of the coolest young entrepreneurs in America, and was awarded

The National Association of Realtors Prestigious “30 under 30” award in 2006. Mr. Menkiti was also honored

as a Minority Business Leader by the Washington Business Journal and named to the paper’s 2014 Power 100,

a list of the most influential business leaders in the Washington metropolitan area. He was also recently

honored by the National Association of Realtors as the District of Columbia Realtor of the Year in 2014 and as

Keller Williams Realty International’s 2015 Entrepreneur of the Year.

Under Mr. Menkiti’s leadership, the Menkiti Group and Keller Williams Capital Properties have been recognized

by Inc. Magazine as being among the fastest growing private companies in the nation and by the Initiative for

Competitive Inner City (ICIC) and Fortune Magazine as two of the fastest growing inner city businesses in

America.

Prior to forming the Menkiti Group and Keller Williams Capital Properties, Mr. Menkiti served as Chief

Operating Officer of College Summit, a national non-profit organization dedicated to increasing the college

enrollment rate of low-income students. In this capacity, Mr. Menkiti oversaw the organization’s successful

growth into a multi-site national organization.

Mr. Menkiti served as the 2013 President of the District of Columbia Association of Realtors and is a board

member of City First Bank of DC and Dance Place. Mr. Menkiti also serves as a member of the Steering

Committee of the Small Business Policy Project and on the board of DC Water, the District of Columbia Water

and Sewer Authority. In 2015, Mr. Menkiti was inducted on the board of the Myer Foundation, the Federal

City Council, and was elected as the Executive Board Member of Prolanthropy. Earlier this year, Mr. Menkiti

launched the Capital Properties Menkiti Group Foundation, an organization that focuses its resources on

serving the diverse social needs existing in the National Capital Area.

Mr. Menkiti is a graduate of Harvard University. He lives in the District with his wife and three young sons.

Buwa Binitie

Founder and CEO

Dumas Collective

As CEO of the Dumas Collective, Mr. Binitie directs vision and oversight of the acquisition,

development, property management, and financial activities of the conglomerate—from

Washington, DC to New York. Mr. Binitie has an extensive tax credit financing experience

(LIHTC, NMTC and HTC) and has closed on financing from nearly every public capital

source available. To date Dumas Collective closed over $1.9B in financing resulting in

over 5,800 workforce and affordable units. Mr. Binitie maintains a narrow focus on the

creation and preservation of affordable housing for people of modest means.

• Buwa has over fifteen years of experience in financing complex real estate transactions.

By narrowly focusing on efficiently financing community development transactions,

Buwa has been successful in adding value beyond the numbers.

• Buwa speaks regularly at industry focused events. Recent engagements include

sessions with The Minority Resource, African‐American Real Estate Professionals,

Bisnow, DC Building Industry Association, Georgetown University and University of

Maryland—Colvin Institute of Real Estate Development and REEX.

• Buwa serves as a teaching mentor for the Equitable Development Program and

Housing Equity Accelerator Fellowship in partnership with Capital Impact Partners and

Amazon, Baker Tilly’s Equitable Development Initiative Network, Real Estate Executive

Council (REEC), LISC and Howard University.

Seth Whetzel

Business Development Officer

Capital Impact Partners

Seth represents Capital Impact Partners in its lending activities and leads loan originations in the DMV region, which includes working closely with DC's Department of Housing & Community Development to manage the District's Housing Preservation Fund (HPF). Before joining Capital Impact, Seth served as Director of Lending and Senior Underwriter at Building Hope, another Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) headquartered in the DMV that provides facility financing and real estate development solutions to charter public schools across the United States. Prior to that, Seth was Director of New School Growth for Seton Education Partners, which included managing real estate acquisition and financing for the Brilla College Prep Charter School Network in the South Bronx. Seth has previously held positions in higher education and non-profit management in DC and CA and as a teacher in TN and Ireland. Seth holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Notre Dame as well as an MBA from George Mason University.

Matt Greeson

Moderator

Reno & Cavanaugh

Matthew Greeson is a member at Reno & Cavanaugh who focuses on complex

real estate transactions with an emphasis on mixed-use transactions that combine

commercial space with affordable and/or market-rate residential units. He

represents developers, property owners, investors, landlords, and tenants in the

negotiation of a wide variety of real estate instruments including ground leases,

governmental disposition agreements, purchase and sale agreements, leases, and

other related agreements. Matt closes transactions employing public-private

partnership initiatives for acquisition and development and utilizing low-income

housing tax credits, tax-exempt and conventional debt, and other private and public capital sources.

Education

 University of Virginia School of Law, J.D.

 Executive Editor, Journal of Law and Politics

 Colgate University, B.A. in History, magna cum laude

Bar Admission

 Admitted to the District of Columbia and Virginia Bars

Selected Transactions

 Representation of developers in the District of Columbia and across the country in mixed-use, mixed-

credit, and mixed-income projects that include market-rate and affordable residential components as

well as retail and other uses, including projects subject to ground leases from local governments and

other public entities, and utilizing low-income housing tax credits, tax-exempt and conventional debt,

and other private and public capital sources, and assisted by project-based HAP contracts and other

similar rental assistance.

 Representation of the purchasers of various apartment projects subsidized by various housing

agencies including USDA Rural Development, HUD, and state tax credit agencies.

 Representation of a California housing authority on the residential and commercial aspects of the

major redevelopment of a 700-unit public housing project into a 1,400 unit-mixed use development

combining affordable and market-rate housing, parks, community amenities and commercial and

retail space.

 Representation of public housing authorities in public housing conversions and financing under

HUD’s Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD) program.

Major Prior Work Experience

 Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP, Associate

Professional Associations

 ABA Affordable Housing and Community Development Forum

 DC Building Industry Association

 Housing Association of Nonprofit Developers (HAND)

 Virginia Housing Alliance

Summary

  1. What are you doing to ensure the cleanliness and safety of your properties for your residents?

  2. Do you have tenants who are no longer able to meet their rent obligations because of their employment situation, and how are you working with them?

  3. Do you expect this crisis to slow down multifamily development and potentially worsen the city’s overall affordability problem?

  4. Is it possible to get financing for new affordable housing deals in today’s market?

  5. How do you think the response from the federal government has been in the area of affordable housing and protecting renters?

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