Matt Hoffman serves as the senior advisor to PBS Commissioner Nina Albert, who is responsible for managing the federal civilian real estate portfolio consisting of over 370 million square feet contained in 8,800 Federal workplaces serving over 1 million Federal employees. His core focus is the implications of the future of work and transitioning to a net zero portfolio.
With over 20 years experience in the real estate sector, Matt’s expertise is in innovation, strategy, and the use of new technologies to bring efficiencies and opportunity to real estate development and management. Before arriving at GSA, he founded HousingTech Ventures as an advisory and investment fund focused on companies with emerging tech-driven solutions addressing the nation’s housing affordability challenges. Prior to that, he spent over 10 years in the lead innovation role at Enterprise Community Partners, one of the nation’s largest capital platforms for financing affordable housing and community development.
Matt started his career in the federal government in the mid-1990’s as a policy advisor to the U.S. Secretary of Commerce working on the emerging commercialization of the Internet, as well as coordinating an interagency taskforce for the White House. After advising Fortune 500 tech companies and start-ups during the dotcom boom and bust, he founded a real estate development company in Baltimore that focused on infill commercial and residential development.
Matt is a graduate of Brown University (B.A. Public Policy) and Harvard University (M. Public Policy).