Matthew Hoffman

Matt Hoffman is the founding Managing Partner of HousingTech Ventures, a firm he established to invest in and advise early-stage companies developing tech-enabled solutions to increase housing availability, attainability, and affordability.12

Professional Background

Matt has over 20 years of experience in the housing and technology sectors. His career highlights include:

• Founding HousingTech Ventures in 20193
• Serving as Vice President of Innovation at Enterprise Community Partners, where he built an investment portfolio of HousingTech companies and launched an online impact investing brokerage12
• Working as a policy advisor to the U.S. Secretary of Commerce and leading a federal interagency taskforce on e-commerce1
• Providing business strategy and policy consulting to high-tech and startup companies as Vice President of E-commerce at Infotech Strategies1
• Co-founding and running a real estate development company in Baltimore, Maryland1

Recent Experience

From 2022 to 2024, Matt completed a two-year assignment as the Senior Advisor to the Commissioner of the Public Buildings Service at the General Services Administration (GSA).3 In this role, he focused on:

• Examining the implications of future work trends on the office portfolio
• Transitioning federal buildings to net zero emissions
• Launching the federal government's Workplace Innovation Lab (WIL) and federal coworking offering3

Education and Affiliations

Matt holds a Master of Public Policy (MPP) from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and a Bachelor of Arts (BA) from Brown University.12 He is actively involved in various professional organizations and initiatives:

• Member of the Urban Land Institute's (ULI) Innovation and Technology Council
• Former UrbanTech advisor to Dreamit Ventures
• Former Ivory Innovations Fellow
• Former member of the Selection Committee for the Housing Lab at the Terner Center for Housing Innovation3

Matt is also passionate about finding housing solutions for the intellectually and developmentally disabled (I/DD) community and chairs the real estate finance committee of Benedictine Programs & Services.3