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Event Description
As a follow-up to our “ABCs of PFCs,” this webinar will dive deeper into the world of Public Facility Corporations (PFCs). Panelists will cover the recent legislative changes, impacts to existing and future deals, ways to preserve and create more affordable housing, and how to navigate the challenging market conditions.
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Our Speakers

Nick Walsh, The NRP Group
Moderator

Daniel Smith, Ojala Holdings
Panelist

Summer Greathouse, Bracewell
Panelist

David Roth, Bellwether
Panelist

Avis Chaisson, Palladium
Panelist

Aaron Eaquinto, City of Dallas HFC
Panelist

Nick Walsh, The NRP Group
Moderator
Nick Walsh serves as Vice President of Development with the NRP Group, a vertically-integrated, best-in-class developer, builder, and manager of multifamily housing. He is responsible for sourcing and entitling new projects, comprising everything from origination to the start of construction. Additionally, Walsh works to build and foster relationships with public partners, government agencies and housing authorities.
Based in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, Walsh develops affordable and mixed-income housing across the state of Texas with a primary focus on the DFW market. Since joining NRP in 2019, he has overseen the development of 2,200 units at a total development cost of nearly $450 million.
Walsh graduated from the University of Michigan with a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the Ross School of Business.

Daniel Smith, Ojala Holdings
Panelist
Daniel Smith is a Managing Director at Ojala Partners, LP, and is currently responsible for all multifamily development and acquisitions in Texas markets. Mr. Smith manages all phases of the development process and has developed or acquired over $1 billion of multifamily over the last 7 years. Prior to this role, Mr. Smith worked at Inland American Real Estate Investment Trust in capital deployment and developed or acquired $400 million+ of multifamily, student housing, and mixed-use investments across the US. Prior to joining Inland, Mr. Smith worked in the real estate consulting industry and managed valuations and tax consulting for a $1.3 billion portfolio in central and south Texas.
Mr. Smith has a Bachelor’s in Business Finance from Texas State University and Master’s in Real Estate Finance from the University of Texas at Arlington.

Summer Greathouse, Bracewell
Panelist
Summer concentrates her practice on tax-exempt financings, tax credits and governmental contracts at the federal, state and local levels. Summer has experience advising purchasers, sellers, lenders, borrowers, landlords and tenants in various real estate transactions, including financings, acquisitions, dispositions and leases. She also has experience counseling clients on corporate governance, choice of entities and non-profit matters.
Prior to attending law school, Summer lived and worked in Buenos Aires, Argentina and is fluent in Spanish.

David Roth, Bellwether Enterprise
Panelist
David Roth, Executive Vice President & Managing Director, leads BWE Investment Sales’ business nationally. David is responsible for the strategic development and implementation of the firm’s aggressive growth plan. David carries with him over a decade of experience and has successfully managed over $3 billion of institutional multi-family investment sales and financings throughout the United States. Coming from one of the nation’s most active principals, David brings a unique perspective and specializes in strategic planning, transaction management, and financial structuring that ensures a successful implementation of client investment strategies.
Prior to joining BWE Investment Sales, David was Executive Vice President and National Director of Multifamily for Matthews Real Estate Investment Services, where he led the expansion of the national multifamily platform. Prior to that, David was Vice President of Investments at The NRP Group, one of the nation’s premier multi-family real estate companies. During his time at NRP, David oversaw acquisitions, dispositions, asset management, and related financing activities for the national portfolio. He was responsible for all asset sales activities including underwriting, marketing, contract negotiations, closing and the overall management of the sales process.
David is a graduate of Kent State University and holds a B.S. degree in Business Administration with a Major in Economics. Additionally, he holds an MBA with a focus on Finance from Cleveland State University.

Avis Chaisson, Palladium
Panelist
Avis Chaisson is the Executive Director of Real Estate Development with Palladium USA International, Inc. She will be responsible for community outreach, intergovernmental affairs, spearheading development activities, and assisting with closing all new construction and acquisition/rehabilitation, multifamily residential developments including market rate, private activity bond, 9% and 4% housing tax credit transactions.
Prior to joining Palladium, Ms. Chaisson worked for the City of Dallas for two years as an Assistant Director in the Office of Economic Development and eleven years with the City of Fort Worth. During her tenure, she led teams and managed high profile economic, community, and housing developments that utilized incentives such as Chapter 380 grants, tax abatements, Tax Increment Financing (TIF), Neighborhood Empowerment Zones (NEZ), and federal funds including Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) and HOME Investment Partnership Program. She fostered partnerships to produce high, quality, attainable residential units through each municipality’s organized Housing Finance Corporations (HFC) mostly by participating in developments that secured equity from the housing tax credit program. Avis’ greatest strength is shepherding projects through the city’s development process.
Avis graduated from Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas with a bachelor of science in Geography and a minor in English, earned credits toward a Master’s in City and Regional Planning at the University of Texas at Arlington with an emphasis in housing, economic and community development programs and strategy and was inducted as a member of Pi Alpha Alpha, the National Honor Society for Public Administration. She is a Certified Economic Development Finance Professional issued by the National Development Council (NDC). Currently, Ms. Chaisson serves as a Board Member for the Texas Association of Local Housing Finance Agencies (TALHFA).

Aaron Eaquinto, City of Dallas Housing Finance Corporation
Panelist
Since 2020 Aaron Eaquinto has worked for the city of Dallas managing the Dallas Housing Finance Corporation and the Dallas Public Facility Corporation. The combined portfolio has grown to nearly 4,000 units representing $2 billion worth of projects in operation or in various stages of construction. A native of California, he transplanted to Texas where he obtained Masters degrees in Land and Property Development as well as Landscape Architecture from Texas A&M University. He started his real estate career in 2014 with HFF(now JLL) in Houston before moving to Dallas and working in asset management at Fairfield Residential and then multifamily lending at Berkadia before moving to the affordable housing sector.