Board of Directors
Terry Green
Executive Director
Mr. Terry Green joined CASHC as the Executive Director in March 2020. He brings over 25 years’ experience in affordable housing. Most recently, he has been a consultant for for-profits and nonprofits working on Low Income Housing Tax Credits and tax-exempt bonds.
Prior to joining CASHC in March 2020, Green served in the federal government in multifamily policy position at the Federal Housing Finance Agency setting the $100 billion cap on multifamily lending by Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae and designing the $18 billion Mark to Market program for HUD Section 8 properties. In addition, Green was a Partner at Patriot Realty which built or renovated over 2,500 units of multifamily and mixed-use developments in the DC metropolitan area. Projects ranged from a $100 million mixed use apartments on top of a Safeway to the planning of 10 acres of raw land. Earlier in his career Green worked for a nonprofit affiliate of the Enterprise Foundation, for profit developers, and the Chase Manhattan Bank and he has served as an expert witness for multifamily litigation involving federal programs.
Green earned an MBA from the Columbia University and a BS in Economics from Bowdoin College.
In addition to overseeing the multifamily cap he served as the multifamily expert for the FHFA housing goals team and the low-income housing tax credit expert for the Duty to Serve Team and the Office of Congressional Affairs and Communications.
Omar Karim
Director
Mr. Karim has been a member of the Board of Directors of All Souls since 2021. He currently serves as CEO of Banneker Ventures, a vertically integrated real estate firm that focuses on solving the region’s affordable and workforce housing problem.
For nearly 18 years, Mr. Karim has led Banneker’s strategic growth from a boutique real estate development company to a fully integrated firm with four verticals, including development, general contracting, construction management and facilities management. The Company recently completed three affordable housing projects in the District, working with tenants to organize through the Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act (TOPA). Through this organizing effort, Banneker preserved 124 units of affordable housing in three fast-gentrifying neighborhoods. Banneker is also completing construction of 81 units of affordable housing in the District with 1,400 additional units of affordable, workforce and market rate housing in the region in its pipeline.
In addition to its service on All Souls’ Board, Mr. Karim also serves on the Board of the Maryland Economic Development Corporation, a 12-member Board appointed by the Governor whose purpose is to encourage business activity and commerce in the State, College Track, Inc., a national non-profit educational organization, and African American Real Estate Professionals of DC. He also serves on the Advisory Board of Petra, a VC-backed technology firm. He is an active member of the Young Presidents Organization (YPO), Real Estate Executive Council (REEC), National Association of Corporate Directors, District of Columbia Bar Association, New York Bar Association and Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc.
Mr. Karim earned a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Juris Doctor degree from Howard University.