Meet Our CEO
Linda Braunschweiger has spent over thirty five years in finance, affordable housing development, non-profit management, and business. She spent many years in public affairs and lobbying at the federal, state and local levels. Early in her career, Ms. Braunschweiger worked in Washington D.C. for the White House and U.S. Senate. Then after years in the corporate environment (primarily banking and finance), Ms. Braunschweiger launched Braunschweiger & Associates (B&A) in 1999 assisting clients with affordable housing policy strategies and financing, strategic planning, and nonprofit management.
In 2010, Braunschweiger became the founding contract CEO, becoming a full time employee in 2017, of the Housing Trust Fund Ventura County. In her role as CEO, she helped orchestrate the formation of HTFVC, raised over $30M in public, private and charitable funds, and produced $26M in short term loans of which the majority has already been repaid, producing 1110 new workforce affordable housing units. She manages and guides a nineteen member board of directors and is the primary visionary for the strategic direction of the Housing Trust Fund. Under her leadership, HTFVC became a certified Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) at the Federal and State level. |
Linda Braunschweiger, CEO
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In 2020, Linda spearheaded the creation of the Housing Land Trust Ventura County, a supporting nonprofit of Housing Trust Fund VC. The Land Trust’s mission is to preserve donated land for the development of affordable housing in perpetuity. Housing Land Trust VC's first donated piece of land is in the City of Oxnard (read more here).
For three consecutive years (2021-2023) Braunschweiger has been selected as one of the Pacific Coast Business Times “Top 50 Women in Business” from San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties. In 2022, she was awarded the Rodney E. Fernandez Excellence in Visionary Leadership Award by the Ventura County Community Development Corporation.
Linda Braunschweiger has a BA in Speech Communications and Industrial Psychology and an MBA with a focus in Public Policy.
For three consecutive years (2021-2023) Braunschweiger has been selected as one of the Pacific Coast Business Times “Top 50 Women in Business” from San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties. In 2022, she was awarded the Rodney E. Fernandez Excellence in Visionary Leadership Award by the Ventura County Community Development Corporation.
Linda Braunschweiger has a BA in Speech Communications and Industrial Psychology and an MBA with a focus in Public Policy.