Phil has over a decade of affordable and mixed-income housing development experience working in both the public
and private sectors. Phil’s projects include over 4,000 units of housing and leverage local, state, and federal resources
to create affordable and market-rate rental and ownership housing for families and elderly adults. Phil has worked with
Low Income Housing Tax Credits, Historic Tax Credits, Workforce Housing funds, Common Wealth Builders funds, RAD and Section 18 conversions, and myriad local funding sources. In the public section, Phil wrote the 2015 Inclusionary Development Policy and worked on other middle-income housing policies including Linkage, density bonuses, and compact unit policies, while permitting over $2B and over 4M square feet of construction including thousands of housing units.
Phil grew up in a half Puerto Rican and half Jewish household, is a musician, kiteboarder, and an instructor of capoeira at Mandingueiros dos Palmares. He holds a Master of Science in Real Estate Development from the MIT Center for Real Estate, is the Secretary of the MIT CRE Alumni Association, is a licensed real estate salesperson in both Massachusetts and New York, and is an active member of the Builders of Color Coalition.