Tina Brooks

Undersecretary, Department of Housing and Community Development

Tina Brooks serves in the Patrick administration as the Commonwealth's undersecretary for housing and community development within the Office of Housing and Economic Development.

Tina has extensive experience in the community development field. She had served as the Director of the Boston Office for the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) since September 2006, and she previously served as program director for LISC’s Philadelphia office.  She also worked in various capacities in the private sector, including at GMAC and the Paramount Financial Group. 

Ms. Brooks has 15 years experience in affordable housing finance and development.  Her career began as a landscape architect with the Pittsburgh firm Environmental Planning and Design where she developed site and land plans for various community planning projects.  She earned her MS in Real Estate Development in 1989 at MIT's Center for Real Estate.

Following graduate school, Ms. Brooks was a development consultant with Greater Boston Community Development, now known as The Community Builders.  She moved with TCB to Philadelphia and assisted community based non-profit developers in financing and completing affordable housing developments.  She subsequently joined one of them as Director of Real Estate Development.

In 1994, Ms. Brooks became the Program Director for the Local Initiatives Support Corporation's Philadelphia program.  For more than six years she successfully introduced a series of housing and other neighborhood revitalization initiatives in Philadelphia which relied on effective collaboration with local government and the corporate and foundation community on behalf of neighborhood interests.

Ms. Brooks joined GMAC Mortgage in 2001 as Vice President for Emerging Markets where she developed Employer Assisted Housing programs and affinity marketing relationships.  Following GMAC's acquisition of the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit syndicator Paramount Financial Group, she moved to Paramount as Vice President of Development Facilitation.