Jeff Merkowitz

Jeff Merkowitz is Senior Advisor at the CDFI Fund and brings three decades of both policy and direct, on the ground experience, in the areas of housing finance and community development. He previously served as Director of Operations and Legislative Assistant to U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer, where he crafted the Senator’s policy responses to both the foreclosure crisis and the longstanding shortage of affordable housing in California. His work for the Senator to expand refinancing opportunities led to the ability of over two million struggling homeowners to refinance their mortgages at historically low rates. He also led efforts in the Senate to restore funding for the Housing Trust Fund and Capital Magnet Fund.