Raven T. Thompson has been working in the affordable housing industry for over 6 years as a Housing Tax Credit Specialist for two housing finance agencies in Mississippi and Georgia. She has been involved in the financing and development of more than 1124-housing projects totaling more than $13,601,740 in Mississippi and over 4990-housing projects totaling $77,886,778 in Georgia alone.

She serves as Development Manager for TBG in our Real Estate Development Department. Prior to, Ms. Thompson served as Project Manager in the real estate development department for Quest Communities, Inc. and shortly before that, her tenure includes her role as a Housing Tax Credit Consultant/Specialist for Georgia Department of Community Affairs. She managed the 8609 Cost Certification process, ten percent test, carryovers and 8610 IRS reporting.

As it relates to both positions, she served as an Affordable Tax Credit Underwriter and Bond Program Lead at the State of Mississippi Housing Finance Agency – Mississippi Home Corporation. In each capacity (both agencies), her job responsibility included serving as a member of the feasibility team underwriting and scoring of the 9% competitive round AND 3%/Tax Exempt tax credit applications, as well as deals layered funding with HOME, National Housing Trust Funds and Community Development Block Grant programs. In addition, she has been an intricate part in policy development and strategic planning efforts for both agencies qualified allocation plans. While serving as Housing Tax Credit Specialist at Mississippi Home Corporation and Georgia Department of Community Affairs,

she helped to establish processes and policies published in the agency’s Qualified Allocation Plan and served and participated in several Qualified Allocation Plan workshops and attended affordable housing Conferences in Washington, DC and San Francisco, California.

Prior to her tenure at the Housing Finance Agencies, Miss Thompson served in the role of a Property Manager managing LIHTC multifamily housing units with a portfolio income size of $15 Million for 2.5 years.