Jim has overseen the design of more than 12,000 mostly affordable housing units: from single-family detached to high-rise retrofit and everything in between. From a public policy standpoint, his focus is on sustainable neighborhoods, multimodal transit, and affordable housing. He has a long history of community engagement, facilitation, and consensus building. Jim served on San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg’s Housing Policy Task Force and developed the city’s $4 billion Housing Policy Framework, was on the Steering Committee for the Strategic Housing Implementation Plan, chairs San Antonio’s Removing Barriers to Affordable Housing Committee and is Board Chair of the non-profit ActivateSA which he founded. He also served as co-chair of the 2022 Parks Bond Committee and helped secure $106 million in funding for recreation trails.