About Consensus Housing Partners

Brian Dowling is the Founder and Principal of Consensus Housing Partners LLC. He is a 25-year veteran of the affordable housing business working across equity, debt, and development.

Through Consensus, Brian has worked with a variety of affordable housing developers and funders by providing services covering portfolio analysis, transactional underwriting, merger/acquisition advisory, and property recapitalization and preservation.

Brian has also held interim management roles with the Low Income Investment Fund (LIIF) lending team and most recently with the National Affordable Housing Trust (NAHT), where he was the Interim President & CEO, prior to NAHT selling its property and fund management portfolio to the National Equity Fund.

Prior to founding Consensus in 2021, Brian spent 16 years with The Community Development Trust (CDT), the only private REIT dedicated exclusively to affordable housing and community development. Brian worked in a variety of capacities for CDT, including 4 years as CDT's Chief Investment Officer. During his time at CDT, Brian completed over $1.275 billion in property acquisitions preserving over 10,000 units across the country, plus oversaw $200 million in lending activity.

Brian began his career working for a national developer and syndicator of Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) properties, and then a local non-profit housing provider, serving in project management roles.

Mr. Dowling holds a Master's in Public Policy from the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Political Science from the University of Rochester.