Eduardo Cabrera Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, California, United States

Serve as HUD's primary field office representative and liaison to community stakeholders across Northern California. Supervise junior and senior field office staff executing on customer service, communications, and place-based priorities focused on addressing homelessness, assuring access to healthy homes, empowering workers, supporting climate resiliency, expanding affordable housing, and combatting discrimination. Collaborate with other senior HUD leaders to scale best practices and coordinate to support HUD's regional and national leadership team. Engage with other federal, state, and local leaders to further priority goals on hot button issues such as high-profile evictions, homelessness, and project habitability concerns in target areas.

• Served as primary spokesperson for HUD and liaison to the news media and to HUD's Office of Public Affairs. Directed HUD's communications strategy in cities across these Western States. • Developed good working relationships with industry reporters and thought leaders. • Planned, executed press events and interviews, often in coordination with local leaders.• Drove HUD's regional presence on social media. Supported HUD's national Spanish messaging.• Created messaging on full suite of housing, community, and economic development programs. • Briefed senior leaders on mortgage finance, home ownership, affordable and fair housing, public and Section 8 housing, homelessness, sustainability, and planning and development trends. • Increased staff engagement via town halls, affinity groups, lectures, screenings and volunteerism.• Curated communications, news advisories and releases for multiple communication platforms.

San Francisco, Ca

Ed served as regional liaison on homelessness for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development coordinating with HUD's Office of Public and Indian Housing, the Office of Community Planning and Development, and the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness. In this capacity, Ed was a senior advisor to the Regional Administrator and supported the Office of Public Affairs.

Ed directed the regional response to homelessness across federal agencies. As regional lead on homelessness for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, he represented the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness throughout the Region IX states of California, Arizona, Nevada and Hawaii. As a result of Ed's work, dozens of long-term, jurisdictionally-led efforts end homelessness were launched in most cities and counties in the region, resulting in increased political and community will to end homelessness and the rapid dissemination of best practices. Ed has spoken extensively at conferences, public events, and in local and state government hearings. He advised the California Assembly’s Select Committee on Homelessness and represented HUD on California’s Interagency Council on Veterans. Furthermore, and for over 6 months in 2009 and 2010, Ed served as acting Supervisory Operations Officer for HUD Region IX.

Ed led HUD’s southwest border initiative in Region IX. He provided outreach, education and technical assistance to provider organizations serving rural migrant and low-income communities. Ed organized and led the implementation of HUD’s statewide conference, managed a team researching employer-assisted housing, served on the region’s federal interagency committee focused on housing issues, and represented HUD in the state’s housing and community development task force. As a result of Ed’s work, over $1.2 million in grants were awarded to stakeholders and HUD experienced an increase in the number of applicants and the level of competitiveness of submittals from these areas.

Ed worked with Special Counsel to the Secretary as part of a team that negotiated a landmark $21 million settlement on behalf of people living in poverty in Riverside County, California. He managed the team’s community engagement effort and he analyzed, reviewed, and rated grant proposals and served as part of the quality assurance team for the $25 million Rural Housing and Economic Development program. He engaged and interviewed designated Empowerment Zone and Enterprise Community grantees to create a database and assist in publishing a compendium of best practices.

Ed provided strategic policy support and interpretation for the organization’s executive officers, organizing campaigns, and legislative and political arms. He analyzed policy trends and issues to understand the impact on all of its members. Ed assisted in conducting hospital and health systems market analysis used to improve the organization’s leveraging strategies within the industry. He delivered technical assistance to state councils working on state legislative issues and analyzed federal budget priorities. Ed served as the organization’s liaison to various community, government, and labor-related work groups and was elected to serve on a team that traveled to Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Georges. There, he created, staffed, and managed a volunteer triage system that provided disaster relief and outreach services to hundreds. Ed led the effort to use this system as a means to gain further public support to further the organization’s efforts on the Island. He also was selected to serve on a team that organized homecare workers in Los Angeles, resulting in one of the largest successful union organizing campaigns in history.

Fellowship, Government Leadership

Executive Education, Government Leadership

Ba, Urban Studies (Public Policy)

Minority Leaders Fellow - The White House, Government Leadership