Investing in our future

Housing Partnership Network (HPN), a national membership network of 100+ strong, independent affordable housing organizations, is pleased to announce advancements in our organizational and leadership structure, including new executive hires, calibrated roles, and strategic changes for the future.

These strategic adjustments build on the organization’s core values of service to members and sector innovation coupled with a bold 2024-2026 Strategic Framework to transform America’s affordable housing system and access to Housing for All.

We are excited to share these advances in our executive leadership team:

• Recent promotion of Katie Rodriguez to EVP, Capital Markets, who started her new role on June 4^th, to oversee HPN/HPF’s lending and investment activities and capital market strategy and solutions including raising flexible and catalytic capital for HPN, its members, and its social enterprises. This includes leveraging deployment of historic federal resources to decarbonize affordable housing.
• Chuck Wehrwein will pivot to a new role of managing operations of HPN’s social enterprises, accelerating and scaling new social enterprises, and strategic business partnerships in the newly created position of EVP and Chief Innovation Officer.
• To achieve greater operational efficiencies, CFO Eric Chatman will take on combined oversight of finance and forward planning with corporate operations and data analytics.
• In May we launched a search for an EVP of Peer Exchange, Policy & Programs to fill Lisa Alberghini’s shoes after her retirement. This role will now combine our signature peer exchange platform and practitioner-driven policy with our program initiatives (including housing counseling, resident services, economic mobility, and green and healthy communities).
• And, we are excited to announce the recruitment for a brand new EVP and Chief of Staff position which will oversee Board Governance, Communications, Fundraising, and People & Culture while supporting our chief executive officer, Robin Hughes, and allow her to play a more prominent external role in advancing the work of HPN, our network members, and the sector. Read job description here.

These transitions are underway and are anticipated to be complete by the end of the year.

Recruiting is also underway for a VP, Lending & Investment and President of HPF, and soon we will seek a new VP, Innovation to partner with Chuck.

These investments in HPN’s people, culture, financial viability, and future are made possible by the transformative gift from philanthropist MacKenzie Scott’s foundation, Yield Giving, that HPN received in 2023.