Dan Mendelson is an affordable housing finance and syndication expert, specializing in negotiating and structuring transactions and programs.  He currently serves as a special consultant to CCA on development, finance and portfolio projects and as Chief Broker for Chesapeake Mortgage, Inc. a Virginia Housing and Finance Authority (VHDA) approved mortgage broker. He became affiliated with CCA in 2003, after leaving Enterprise Social Investment Corporation where over the previous 13 years he had helped build the LIHTC syndication business into a profitable $500 M plus per year syndicator and served as Senior Vice President.  Dan currently operates a small consulting firm (DTM and Associates, Inc.) working in the Affordable Housing/Community Development Finance Industry on idea generation, organizational, capital raising, underwriting, portfolio and development matters for a variety of developers, foundations, low income tax credit syndicators/lenders and investor clients.  Recent clients include The Kresge Foundation, NeighborWorks, Living Cities Foundation, National Equity Fund, Great Lakes Capital, Ohio Capital Corporation for Housing, National Affordable Housing Trust, Enterprise Community Investments, Arlington Partnership for Affordable Housing (APAH), National Church Residences, AEON, Adams Construction, Pathstone, and NHT/Enterprise. With more than thirty years of experience in community developments and housing finance, Mr. Mendelson approaches issues with a non-profit heart but a business head.  He is a proven problem solver ready to take on any and all of CCA’s clients’ challenges.