As President and Chief Executive Officer for Related California Affordable, Ms. Silverberg is responsible for the strategic direction, overall management and daily operation of the company’s over $8.5 billion affordable portfolio in Northern California, Southern California and the Pacific Northwest. For the past eight years, Ms. Silverberg has overseen 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 in 2018, Ms. Silverberg was Executive Vice President and Chief Investment Officer at BRIDGE Housing Corporation, where she directed and oversaw their Northern California Division. During her tenure, she led the development and redevelopment of more than 8,000 affordable, mixed-income, mixed-use and transit-oriented housing units throughout the Bay Area and Sacramento region. She also directed the capital aggregation and placement of equity and debt for both 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.
Ms. Silverberg currently serves on the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of the California Housing Consortium, is co-chair of the Bay Area Council Housing Policy Committee and a member of both the Housing Policy Committee and the City Advisory Board for the San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR). She was appointed to the San Francisco Housing Leadership Council, is a board member of the San Francisco Housing Action Coalition (SFHAC) and vice chair for the ULI San Francisco Local Product Council.
Ms. Silverberg has received the Northern California Real Estate Women of Influence award and was recognized as one of the Most Influential Women in Bay Area Business by the San Francisco Business Times. BISNOW has honored her as one of the most dynamic women in commercial real estate. Ms. Silverberg has co-chaired the California Debt Limit Allocation Committee/Tax Credit Allocation Committee Working Group under State Treasurer Ma and is past president of the Board of Directors for the Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern California. She previously served on the Board of National Affordable Housing Trust and on the investment committee of Housing Partnership Equity Trust, an affordable housing REIT.
For the past eight years, she has been a faculty lecturer at the College of Environmental Design at the University of California, Berkeley, where she teaches a graduate-level methods class focused on affordable housing finance and development. Ms. Silverberg holds a Master of City and Regional Planning from the University of California, Berkeley and a bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Los Angeles.
