Charles Laven
Charles Laven has over 40 years of experience providing financial advisory and consulting services to housing finance agencies, mortgage and investment banking firms, developers, foundations and nonprofit organizations. He spent 12 years as a partner at Hamilton, Rabinovitz & Alschuler, Inc., a New York-based consulting firm, and assisted in municipal bond financings and provided real estate advisory services with the firm of Caine Gressel Midgley Slater. In the 1970s and early 1980s, Mr. Laven was founder of and executive director of the Urban Homesteading Assistance Board, a New York City nonprofit organization responsible for the rehabilitation of abandoned buildings and their conversion to cooperative ownership. Laven has been a member of the faculty of Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation since 1981. From 1986-1993, he directed the Master of Science in Real Estate Development program and is currently an adjunct professor of Real Estate.