Kacey Cordes

Biographie : Kacey Cordes is a Vice President within the Affordable Housing team at U.S. Bancorp Impact Finance based in St. Louis, Missouri. As one of the leaders of this nationwide team, she brings two decades of experience in affordable housing finance and market-rate multifamily development. After starting at the Bank’s Denver office and closing more than $300MM in equity investments, she shifted into management and first-line review of dozens of affordable deals per year. Most recently, she led the creation of an onboarding and training program to substantially grow the team it its unique capabilities to offer seamless debt and equity to the most complex tax credit financed public-private partnerships in the country. With an annual production volume of $2 billion, USBIF’s Affordable Housing platform is an industry leader in social impact finance. Kacey is immediate past Chair of the Urban Land Institute’s national Public-Private Partnership Council and immediate past Chair of ULI St. Louis. She is a member of the Leadership St. Louis class of 2016-2017. She served on ULI’s DEI Council in 2020 and strongly believes in racial equity as a core value in business and society at large. In 2015, she became one of the first active in USBIF’s DEI efforts as a participant in Anti-Bias Anti-Racism training offered by Crossroads. She and other key leaders within ULI St. Louis have sought to integrate equitable development thought leadership at the local level since that time. Kacey holds a Master of Science in Real Estate Development from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and International Business from Washington University in St. Louis.