May 14Biography of Deborah Burkart
Deborah Burkart is a Managing Director of Supportive Housing at National Equity Fund, Inc. (NEF), a leading non-profit syndicator of low-income housing tax credits. Since joining NEF in 1992, she has underwritten supportive housing and affordable assisted living investments for NEF’s funds for a wide range of populations facing barriers. Because of her efforts, NEF was an early investor in Affordable Assisted Living and oversaw NEF’s investment in 34 projects. In addition, Burkart has assisted in securing more than $1 billion in NEF tax credit equity for supportive housing projects with set asides for veterans experiencing homelessness in 17 states. In 2012, she founded and directs LISC-NEF’s Bring Them HOMES raising predevelopment grant funding for veterans supportive housing projects.
In 2009, she became a National Coalition for Homeless Veterans (NCHV) board member and in 2016 joined Corporation for Supportive Housing’s (CSH) national board. She also serves on LA Family Housing and LAFHBuild’s boards. In 2017, she was profiled by Affordable Housing Finance as one of ten women who have reached the top of the affordable housing industry and inducted into the Affordable Housing Hall of Fame in 2022.
She graduated from Duke University and received master’s degrees in business administration and city and regional planning from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
