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Geoff Moenat 1:46

…to us that we're implementing the the mayor's priorities. Um, but but basically, um, you know, what we're about at Hackla is building creating affordable housing for people in LA. We focus only within the city of Los Angeles. Okay. So, we use all these different tools that we have. I'm sure we'll get into that, but that's basically our mission. Affordable housing primarily for people of lower income, very low income, etc. The other thing that I think we'll get into and I'll just touch on is we run the section 8…

Geoff Moenat 6:19

…to go back to school and I went to school uh on the East Coast for a master's program, but I kind of had the idea that I wanted to work in this affordable housing space cuz I had been really exposed to it

Geoff Moenat 6:55

uh in New Orleans because a lot of the focus was we want to rebuild and build units, but we need affordable housing, too. And there was a lot of tax credits and things that came up around that. And so, I kind of went in with that idea that this is kind of the field that I want to be in. And I really focused my time there on taking all the classes I could, you know, networking, doing internships, etc. that were focused on that. And I kind of realized like, yes, this is a field that I really enjoy. Um, when it came…

Geoff Moenat 7:36

…Companies. Yeah. I worked for Jeff Jagger working on doing what they call west coast production which is kind of running deals on the west coast affordable housing acquisition rehab tax credits section 8 all that stuff I had been doing in Boston I did it out here um but fast forward um and that was a fantastic experience which you know