Gabriel Gabe Speyer

Development and finance consultant for people working together to build, preserve, or support affordable housing. #YIMBY

Role
Principal at Zen Development Consultants Llc
Location
San Francisco, CA, US
LinkedIn followers
500 followers
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About Gabriel Gabe Speyer

Named after the fin which stabilizes a boat, KDC provides finance capacity and technical assistance to people working together to build, preserve, or support affordable housing. What makes me unique among other sole proprietor consultants is that my 19 years of experience are both broad and narrow at the same time. Broad in the sense that I have worked on projects from many different angles. I\'ve provided construction loans & borrowed them, applied to HCD & helped create new programs, represented cities & sat across from them, facilitated LIHTC investments & project-managed LIHTC projects, analyzed sites & created pipelines, written RFPs & responded to them, created Excel-based funding applications & scored them, and I\'ve both created high-level housing development programs & been the developer to help bring them to fruition. Phew! Haha. It\'s narrow in the sense that it\'s all been within affordable housing finance and development. My passion and \"highest & best use!\"

Experience

  1. Principal

    Zen Development Consultants Llc

    Mar 2025 — Present

    In addition to Keel, I am a Principal with Zen Development Consultants LLC (“ZDC”). ZDC assists non-profit and for-profit developers of affordable and mixed-income housing at every stage of the development process.

Education

  • Leadership San Francisco

    Class of 2011

    2010 — 2011

  • UC San Diego

    BA, Economics and Sociology

    1991 — 1995

  • Columbia Business School

    MBA, Finance and Marketing

    1997 — 1998

Skills

  • Finance
  • Commercial Real Estate
  • Asset Managment
  • Management
  • Real Estate Economics
  • Underwriting
  • Strategy
  • Financial Analysis
  • Investments
  • Investment Banking
  • Portfolio Management
  • Loans
  • Credit
  • Banking
  • Affordable Housing
  • Real Estate Development
  • Real Estate

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