Kathleen H. Head
Ms. Head is a Senior Principal in the Los Angeles office of Keyser Marston. Ms. Head joined the firm in 1983 manages the firm’s affordable housing practice and provides public and private clients with real estate economic analysis for a wide variety of land uses.
Key Role
In Keyser Marston’s Los Angeles office, Ms. Head plays a key role in structuring affordable housing transactions, strategy development, policy analyses and program creation for redevelopment agencies, cities and counties throughout California. Ms. Head has also actively participated in crafting California legislative housing intiatives, and is a long-term member of the California Redevelopment Association (CRA) Housing Committee.
A representative sample of clients that Ms. Head has assisted includes Anaheim, Burbank, Costa Mesa, Culver City , Huntington Beach, Long Beach, Pasadena and Santa Ana, and. During her tenure in the Keyser Marston Los Angeles office, Ms. Head has assisted more than 100 public sector clients in California.
Specific Areas of Expertise
Affordable Housing Transactions
Ms. Head advises clients in structuring a wide variety of affordable housing projects, with transactions ranging from the complex leveraging and layering of multiple funding sources for multi-phased mixed-use projects, to the simple acquisition and rehabilitation of single buildings. Her involvement with projects ranges from the initial creation of RFP/Q’s for developer solicitation, to the negotiation and implementation of the Affordable Housing Agreement that will guide the development. Ms. Head has experience working with Property Tax Increment Housing Set-Aside funds; Federal HOME funds; Federal and State Low Income Housing Tax Credits; Multi-Family Housing Program funds; HUD Section 202 and 811 funds; Affordable Housing Program funds offered by the Federal Home Loan Bank; Mortgage Credit Certificates; and BEGIN and CalHome funds offered by the State of California.
Affordable Housing Strategies / Policies
Ms. Head assists in creating affordable housing legislation that currently guides California redevelopment agencies. Utilizing that expertise, Ms. Head has prepared the affordable housing section of numerous AB 1290 Implementation Plans and has assisted several cities in developing comprehensive strategies for fulfilling both the legal requirements and the client’s policy goals and objectives.
Affordable Housing Programs
Ms. Head has assisted many clients in creating inclusionary housing programs, and accompanying in-lieu fees studies, to assist the jurisdiction in fulfilling the affordable housing production requirements imposed by the California Redevelopment Law and by the Regional Housing Needs Assessment imposed for Housing Element purposes.
Ms. Head has assisted numerous clients in the creation of home buyer programs, rehabilitation loan programs and programs targeting specific neighborhoods for a variety of affordable housing activities.
Professional Credentials
Ms. Head holds master’s degrees in business administration and urban planning from UCLA, and a bachelor’s degree in history from UCLA. Ms. Head also has taught the Advanced Affordable Housing course offered by the CRA, and is a frequent speaker at CRA, League of Cities and National Associations of Housing and Redevelopment conferences.