Gene Slater
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Gene Slater

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Gene Slater has served as senior advisor on housing for federal, state, and local agencies for over forty years. He cofounded and chairs CSG Advisors, which has been one of the nation’s leading advisors on affordable housing for decades and has structured more than $70 billion of financing for first-time home buyers, mixed-income apartments, neighborhood revitalization, and improved public housing. Slater helped design and implement major housing strategies for Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Washington, DC, and Wichita, and assisted a wide range of small towns and suburbs. His work designing Pittsburgh’s home improvement loan program, which rehabilitated 18,000 of the city’s 72,000 single-family homes, became the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s national model for housing rehabilitation. He has advised the state housing finance agencies of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York, Virginia, Washington State, and many others. His projects have received numerous national awards, and in 2009, in the aftermath of the financial crisis, he helped design the program by which the U.S. Treasury financed homes for 110,000 first-time buyers and 40,000 affordable rental units. Slater received a BA from Columbia University summa cum laude, a traveling fellowship to the London School of Economics, a master’s in city planning from MIT, and a master’s from Stanford University. A mid-career Loeb Fellowship in Environmental Design from Harvard University, awarded to ten planners and architects from around the world each year, enabled him to study capital markets for housing at the Harvard Business School and create the first joint Harvard-MIT seminars on financing public- private partnerships. In 2020, he gave the American Institute of Architects’ first national webinar on the history of housing segregation. Growing up in Brooklyn—in the only assembly district in New York State to vote for Barry Goldwater—he helped start what became CSG Advisors in a rural Wisconsin farmhouse by the Mississippi River, and has also lived and worked in New York, Boston, Chicago, and the San Francisco Bay Area, where he currently resides.
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