ROBERTO

Roberto Jiménez brings a depth of experience in housing and community development. He understands the community-building opportunities inherent in affordable multifamily housing through his 20 years working with farmworkers in rural Oregon and developing and managing affordable real estate in California.

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Mr. Jiménez was most recently the CEO of both Mutual Housing California and Mutual Housing Management where he oversaw a $10 million budget, developed 1,000 new rental homes, and created an active pipeline valued at $500,000,000 financed through public/private/philanthropic sources. Mutual Housing also developed the first zero net energy multifamily housing community in the U.S. and the first LGBTQ+ affordable senior housing community outside a major U.S. city. Under his tenure Mutual Housing won state, national, and international awards for its sustainable, energy efficient multifamily housing.

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While serving as director of the Farmworker Housing Development Corporation in Woodburn, Oregon, he tripled the size of its affordable housing portfolio, developed or rehabbed 330 units of diverse multifamily housing worth a total $77 million, and managed a variety of resident services programs. He then launched and was CEO of Evolve Workforce and Property Management, Oregon’s only nonprofit, third-party affordable property management company that focused on providing job training.

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Mr. Jiménez has a diverse background in training, writing, and communications for the nonprofit sector and brings an equity lens to all his work. He is a published researcher on the health impacts of discrimination against immigrant Latinos in Oregon. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Oregon in comparative literature and a NeighborWorks® Achieving Excellence executive degree from Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.