Matt Hoffman

Matt Hoffman has spent his career applying his strategy, business development, and innovation skills to solving problems that create growth and opportunity in the public, private, and non-profit sectors, with a primary focus over the past two decades on increasing housing supply and affordability .

Matt founded HousingTech in 2017 to help accelerate innovation in the housing market that leads to increased housing supply, affordability, availability, attainability, and sustainability. He advises early-stage companies with innovative, tech-enabled solutions, as well as other housing market players such as developers, portfolio owners, capital providers, philanthropists, policy makers, and trade associations. He is an active member of the Urban Land Institute (ULI) and its DC-based innovation and technology council, and spent two years curating the initial Startup Zone for the National Association of Home Builders at the annual International Builders Show.

With over 20 years’ experience building businesses in the housing and technology sectors, in February 2024 he completed a two-year assignment as the Senior Advisor to the Commissioner of the Public Buildings Service at the General Services Administration (GSA), which oversees the U.S. government’s civilian real estate portfolio of more than 365 million square feet. His focus at GSA was the implications of “the future of work” on the office portfolio and transitioning federal buildings to net zero emissions. He helped launch the federal government’s Workplace Innovation Lab (WIL) and federal coworking offering (think WeWork just for federal employees). He represented GSA on the White House’s housing supply interagency policy council.

Matt has co-founded and led several ventures including a low-cost/low-carbon building materials company, a real estate development company, an online investment trading platform, a telehealth services company, and a luminescent lighting company. He is a frequent conference presenter on issues related to innovation in the housing market.

Matt previously served as Vice President of Innovation for Enterprise Community Partners, Inc., a national real estate financial services platform serving the affordable housing sector. In that role, he built an investment portfolio of HousingTech companies and worked closely with the sustainability team to support greening the nation’s affordable housing supply.

His additional professional experiences include serving as a policy advisor to the U.S. Secretary of Commerce and running a federal interagency taskforce on e-commerce; providing business strategy and policy consulting to high-tech and startup companies as Vice President of E-commerce at Infotech Strategies; and co-founding and running a real estate development company in Baltimore, Maryland.

Matt previously has served as an UrbanTech advisor to Dreamit Ventures, an Ivory Innovations Fellow, and a member of the Selection Committee for the Housing Lab at the Terner Center for Housing Innovation.

Based in the Washington, DC area, Matt has a passion for finding housing solutions for the Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (I/DD) community and currently chairs the real estate finance committee of Benedictine Programs & Services, which helps I/DD children and adults achieve their greatest potential.

He is a graduate of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government (MPP) and Brown University (BA).