Josh is the Chief Housing & Compliance Officer at RCAP Solutions. Hebegan working at RCAP Solutions in 2020 after serving as the District Director for Chairwoman Jennifer Benson in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. Prior to his current tole for RCAP Solutions, Josh served as the organization’s Grants, Contracts, & Compliance Manager overseeing the internal contract management and reporting process.
Prior to serving as an aide in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, Josh interned for Congressman Paul D. Tonko in Albany, New York. Josh’s state and federal government experience provides him with an understanding of RCAP Solutions’ funding sources and the need for strict adherence to program fulfillment. In Josh’s current role, he oversees RCAP Solutions’ extensive housing programs, legislative activity, and acts as a liaison to our partner organizations and funders to ensure open communication and positive outcomes for participants, clients, and the organization.
Josh holds a Bachelor of Science in Public Policy and a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from the University at Albany, SUNY and a Master of Business Administration in Management from Fitchburg State University.
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Josh took Affordable Housing Essentials: How to Design, Develop, & Finance Properties Growing Cities Need with us in October 2025, and we asked him a few questions about his experience after.
Why did you choose to sign up for this program, and how was your experience?
RCAP Solutions is actively exploring an entree into affordable housing development. Our organization developed affordable housing across Worcester County, Massachusetts for a number of years from the late 1970s onward but as of late, we have not. Unfortunately, we’ve experienced both the departure of the institutional knowledge that helped our development efforts and the significant shift of Massachusetts’ affordable housing landscape. These factors greatly contributed to my motivation to take the course, and I was not disappointed. RCAP Solutions is a Regional Administering Agency for state and federal housing and economic mobility programs which has afforded our team a front-row seat to watch other organizations we do business with develop affordable housing across our region.
This course gave me direct insight into the world developers exist in, their constraints, and the methodologies they engage to get projects to completion.
How do you plan to apply what you have learned in this program in your daily work?
This course provided me with a comprehensive knowledge of the affordable housing development process and landscape which I intend to use to help position our organization to engage in affordable housing development. The course provide me valuable information not just about what to do but how to do it and what pitfalls to lookout for when considering a pivot toward housing development. Developing housing is expensive, but this course allows me to provide a framework of understanding to my colleagues to set a good foundation moving forward.
Would you recommend this program to other US-based affordable housing professionals?
I absolutely would recommend this course to other affordable housing professiuonals. I believe this course provided a good balance between Massachusetts-specific information and general affordable housing development concepts.
Given your experience in state and federal government, did you find it beneficial to gain a broader perspective on housing development that is more focused on the developer’s perspective?
Absolutely I did. The proverbial look behind the curtain into how developers function is valuable, but given my time working in the Massachusetts Legislature and at a housing non-profit, what was more valuable was the look at how developers engage with state governments to further their mission and achieve their goals.