Housing Development Finance Professional (HDFP)

Issued by Grow America

Holders of the HDFP Certification have demonstrated their ability to apply the complex financial analysis, deal structuring, and negotiation skills needed to develop and finance affordable for sale and rental housing development. They have mastered the ability to use complicated public and private financing tools in scenarios derived from real-world projects and have the skills needed to put together or evaluate affordable and market-rate housing development deals in urban and rural communities.

Type Certification
Level Advanced
Time Years
Cost Paid

Additional Details

Skills

Affordable Housing
Deal Structuring
Finance
Financial Analysis
For Sale Housing
Housing Development Finance Professional
Mortgage Loans
Negotiation
Private Equity
Problem Solving
Spreadsheets
Underwriting

Earning Criteria

Complete HD410 - Home Ownership Finance In this course, participants learn the skills and techniques that successful housing development finance practitioners use to create affordable, owner-occupied, single family housing. It takes an in-depth look at the financing of housing and how financing affects affordability—of both the unit’s sales price and the buyer’s monthly mortgage payment.
Complete HD420 - Rental Housing Development Finance HD420 takes a detailed look at the analysis, financing, and development of affordable rental housing including the underwriting criteria used by lenders and the rates of return demanded by private equity investors to determine their investment in a rental housing project. HD420 explores methods to attract the maximum amount private capital to rental housing projects and ways to fill financing gaps with public resources.
Complete HD423 - Computer Spreadsheet Analysis for Rental HousingHD423 teaches the use of computer spread sheets to apply the financial analysis techniques presented in the previous course. In this course, participants learn to use spread sheets as a tool to locate and interpret key financial information and to restructure a housing transaction based on revised assumptions. Participants also learn to use spreadsheets to consider structuring options for affordable rental housing.
Complete HD435 - Rental Housing Development Finance: Problem Solving and Deal StructuringHD435 blends financial analysis techniques with the problem solving and negotiating skills needed to close complex projects. HD435 challenges participants to analyze and structure financing packages for rental housing deals that are complicated by a variety of factors, both financial and non-financial. They become skilled at the methods used to structure financing that effectively leverages public dollars.