Our Team
Talented and agile, Housing Diversity Corporation’s leadership team is driven to create innovative affordable housing solutions. All members are passionate about the company and its mission, creating high-quality workforce housing that promotes diversity, equity, and inclusion in core urban neighborhoods. Housing Diversity’s team believes in leveraging all resources available to build the future of affordable housing while maintaining the highest standards of financial management and reporting as a fiduciary.
Brad Padden
Founder & CEO
Mathias Cohanim
Chief of Staff
Julie Xu
Director, Finance
Lauren Padden
Chief Administrative Officer
Jack Rector
Real Estate Analyst
Robert Tiscareno
Director, Business Development & Operations
Adina Eaton
CMO
Institutional Partnerships
Our innovative approach has attracted partnerships with leading institutions committed to housing solutions. These strategic relationships enable us to leverage private capital for public good, creating essential housing that serves community needs.
United Way of Greater Los Angeles
Supporting our LAHSA partnership through their Affordable Housing Initiative Fund II.
Amazon Housing Equity Fund Partnering on workforce housing development near employment centers.
Century Housing CDFI
Providing acquisition financing for transformative projects.
LAHSA
Pioneering master lease arrangements for homelessness solutions.
PATH
Creating mixed income housing solutions for formerly homeless veterans.
CEI-Boulos Capital Management
Increasing housing access alongside HDC as a key equity partner in the Atrium Court project.
Arctaris Impact Investors
Leveraging Opportunity Zone funding to deliver transformative affordable housing at Liv DTLA.
Enterprise Community Partners
Advancing housing justice as the primary equity partner in Cityscape Broadway.
Nuveen Green Capital
Accelerating sustainable housing solutions by providing C-PACE in financing in West Seattle.
Clearinghouse CDFI
Providing financing to support affordability in Seattle’s First Hill neighborhood.
Partner Companies
Construction partner in all HDC projects, STS Construction Services has over two decades in Seattle and over a decade in Los Angeles. Owner Craig Haveson of STS Construction Services and CEO and Founder Brad Padden of HDC have a close working relationship that helps to ensure projects are completed on time and on budget.
The principals of Nitze-Stagen and Housing Diversity partnered to create OZ Navigator. The OZ Navigator team takes advantage of their existing deal flow and their team of legal, tax and accounting, underwriting, and community impact investment professionals to source and deliver excellent Opportunity Zone projects.
Nitze-Stagen is a private investment firm offering unique expertise in the areas of commercial office, industrial, retail properties, and adaptive reuse. For over four decades, commercial real estate investors have looked to Nitze-Stagen for its proven experience and knowledge.