As Chief Executive Officer for Related California’s Northern California Affordable and Northwest Divisions, Ms. Silverberg is responsible for the strategic direction, overall management and daily operation of the company’s over $3.5 billion affordable portfolio in Northern California and the Northwest. For the past six years, Ms. Silverberg has overseen or directed the growth of the affordable pipeline in Northern California and the Northwest to over 5,000 units under construction and in predevelopment.
Prior to joining Related California, Ms. Silverberg was Executive Vice President and Chief Investment Officer at BRIDGE Housing Corporation where she directed and oversaw their Northern California Division. She led the development and redevelopment of more than 8,000 affordable, mixed-income, mixed-use and transit-oriented housing units, including the acquisition and redevelopment of nearly 1,000 public housing units in San Francisco and Sacramento, the joint venture development of mixed-income residential units with Essex in the Transbay area of San Francisco, and mixed-income residential units in Santa Clara County. She directed the capital aggregation and placement of equity and debt for their Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) and non-LIHTC developments, and oversaw the negotiation and placement of over $3 billion in project level debt and equity.
She is a recipient of the Northern California Real Estate Women of Influence and Most Influential Women in Bay Area Business awards by the San Francisco Business Times, and has been recognized as one of the most dynamic women in commercial real estate by BISNOW. Ms. Silverberg is the immediate past chair of the Board of Directors of the California Housing Consortium and was a co-chair of California State Treasurer Ma’s California Debt Limit Allocation Committee/Tax Credit Allocation Committee Working Group. She serves as the co-chair of the Bay Area Council Housing Policy Committee and is on the Housing Policy Committee and City Advisory Board of the San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR). She was appointed to the SF Housing Leadership Council, is a board member of the San Francisco Housing Action Coalition (SFHAC), vice chair of the ULI San Francisco Local Product Council, and past president of the Board of Directors of the Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern California. Ms. Silverberg previously served on the Board of National Affordable Housing Trust and on the investment committee of Housing Partnership Investment Trust, an affordable housing REIT. She is a faculty lecturer in the College of Environmental Design at the University of California, Berkeley, where she teaches a graduate level methods class in affordable housing finance and development. She holds a Master of City and Regional Planning from the University of California, Berkeley and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Los Angeles.
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