Lisa Motoyama joined Community Economics in 2018, bringing together her experience and expertise from work across the public, nonprofit and for profit affordable housing development sectors, and through the lifecycle of development from feasibility to refinance and recapitalization.
Prior to Community Economics, she served as the Director of Real Estate – Special Initiatives and Director of Acquisition and Preservation at the San Francisco Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development where she was primarily responsible for the infrastructure and real estate aspects of the HOPE SF Initiative, the nation’s first large-scale public housing transformation and reparations effort without mass displacement of the existing 4,500 residents living in 2,000 dilapidated units. During her tenure, 643 units were completed or started construction, and entitlements and development agreements approved for 3,300 units.
Prior to her transition to the public sector, Lisa was an affordable housing developer and advocate in the nonprofit sector. In her previous position as Housing Development Director at Resources for Community Development, she was responsible for the development of over 1100 units serving over 3,000 low income adults and children, many with special needs. With over 20 years of housing development experience, Lisa brings her passion and expertise to improving the lives of low income people. In addition to her work experience, she has served in volunteer positions ranging from the Contra Costa County Affordable Housing Finance Committee, and the EBHO Board of Directors, to the El Cerrito Planning Commission and the Oversight Board of the San Francisco Office of Community Investment and Infrastructure.
She has a master’s degree in City and Regional Planning from UC Berkeley and a bachelor’s of arts degree in History and Art History from UCLA.