Jim Silverwood

Jim Silverwood, CEO, supervises and supports the President, Chief Financial Officer, and Senior Vice President of Construction at the firm. Mr. Silverwood has 40 years of experience in real estate development, in his early years as a general building contractor and later as a developer. He developed his first ‘for sale’ townhome development at the age of 26.

After founding the company in the early 1990s and under Mr. Silverwood's direction, Affirmed Housing has secured over $2.6 billion dollars in affordable housing financing and tax credit equity. While Affirmed has continued to grow in the field of affordable housing by developing innovative new construction and acquisition/rehabilitation communities across California, recent focus has been responding to the homelessness crisis in California. Affirmed is now a leader in the development of supportive housing throughout the state and is consistently ranked by Affordable Housing Finance magazine in top 10 affordable developers in California.

Mr. Silverwood has been active in regional, statewide, and national legislative issues for housing. He has served on numerous Boards and Committees, such as the Board of Directors of the San Diego County Building Industry from 1989 to 1992 and California State Treasurer Matt Fong's Housing Finance Advisory Committee from 1997 to 1998.

A past board member of the San Diego Housing Federation, CA Center for the Arts and LISC, he currently sits on the Board of Directors of the California Housing Consortium. A past chair of this organization, he was nominated and inducted in 2011 into the California Housing Hall of Fame.