Scott Kline, Vice President

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Scott L. Kline serves as Vice President of the National Housing Trust and NHT/Enterprise Preservation Corporation. During his 19 year career in the affordable housing arena, Mr. Kline has financed over $350 million of affordable housing. Mr. Kline oversees acquisition efforts on properties throughout the United States. He manages a staff of 9 who are responsible for coordinating all aspects of multifamily acquisitions, redevelopment, and preservation of affordable housing. The process involves evaluating physical conditions of properties, negotiating purchase terms with owners, developing project concepts and finance plans, coordinating due diligence processes, securing multiple layers of financing, developing resident service programs, and asset management. Often these efforts are on behalf of resident groups and/or nonprofit organizations interested in acquiring properties to preserve them as affordable housing. Other times they are done on behalf of NHT/Enterprise Preservation Corporation.

Mr. Kline also develops and conducts workshops for resident councils, non-profit developers, city/state housing officials, and state finance agencies. Frequent topics include: federally assisted housing and means for preservation; federal policy and programs which impact preservation of federally assisted housing; considerations for evaluating the acquisition, redevelopment and preservation of affordable housing; and approaches to financing the acquisition, redevelopment and preservation of affordable housing.

Prior to joining the staff of the Trust, Mr. Kline served as the Director of Multifamily Programs for the Arlington Housing Corporation (AHC), a private, nonprofit, developer of affordable housing in Arlington, VA. He coordinated a staff of 5 in all facets of multifamily real estate development, including acquisition, finance, design, construction and/or rehabilitation, marketing, and asset management.
Mr. Kline has experience working with a variety of financial executions and programs including: private activity tax-exempt bonds; 501(c)(3) fixed rate and lower floater bonds; Federal Low-Income Housing Tax Credits; Section 8; Community Development Block Grant funds; HUD Rental Rehabilitation Grants; HOME loans; state housing trust funds; Standard & Poor's Affordable Housing Program; Federal Home Loan Bank’s Affordable Housing Program and Community Investment Program; CRA loans; bargain sales; foundation grants; capital grants and 241(f) loans through the Low-Income Housing Preservation and Resident Homeownership Act; and a variety of seller take-back arrangements.

Mr. Kline earned an M.B.A. in Real Estate Development and Urban Planning, from American University, Washington, D.C. and also holds a B.B.A in Finance, from George Washington University, Washington, D.C. Mr. Kline is President of the board of the Housing Association of Nonprofit Developers (H.A.N.D.) serving the Washington, DC metropolitan area.