Staff & Board

Matt Schauer

Senior Project Manager

Matt has two primary passions in life: to be in service of others and to improve our tools for better outcomes. In affordable housing development, he has brought those passions together to develop 900 new homes for low-income and formerly unhoused families. He has acquired sites on city, county, and state-owned land valued at $9 million; secured $130 million in 9% and 4% tax credit equity, $365 million in public capital and operating subsidies, and $9 million in grants; constructed buildings utilizing shipping containers, wood, and steel framing; rehabilitated former hotels and single-family homes; developed parks alongside housing; and seeks to incorporate sustainable features in every building, whether it’s reusing greywater for irrigation of edible landscaping to combat food insecurity, disconnecting a building from the power grid by being zero net energy in operations, or reducing a building’s carbon footprint through the elimination of one of the 21st century economy’s most ubiquitous materials: cement. Prior to joining Holos, Matt worked in microfinance providing financial services to the unbanked in rural China.