Rodger Hara

传：Rodger has worked in affordable housing finance and development for federal, state and local government agencies and private sector mortgage companies since 1972. Founder and owner of his own firm, Community Builders Realty Services, he now guides those agencies, for-profit and non-profit developers and organizations through the affordable housing finance and development maze. He was Chairman of the Lakewood Housing Authority and Vice Chairman of the Englewood Housing Authority. He was on the RTD Fast Tracks Citizen Advisory Committee, the boards of several community-based non-profit affordable housing organizations and is a former Trustee of the Colorado Outward Bound School, the Colorado Episcopal, Sam S. Bloom and Recovery Foundations. He is a member of the Vestry at St. John’s Cathedral where he is also an usher, lector and Eucharistic Visitor. He is a frequent lecturer on affordable housing at local, regional, and national conferences and local universities. He designed and has led a 6-month long affordable housing development and finance seminar for 15 years and is the editor/curator of the Affordable Housing Spotlight section of the Multifamily Properties Quarterly for the Colorado Real Estate Journal. He is currently working with Metropolitan State University of Denver on development of an affordable housing property management and social services program. He is a graduate of the University of Denver and has done post-graduate studies at the University of Colorado at Denver. He lives in Denver, sings in and manages an Irish band, hosts Celtic music, Big Band and Jazz shows on KGNU Community Radio and has been a Tour Ambassador at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts for 15 years.